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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The wiki page contains no examples of multipolygons with non-ways as members, either on <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multipolygon_Examples">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multipolygon_Examples</a> or <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:multipolygon">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:multipolygon</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Igor Brejc [mailto:igor.brejc@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 08, 2012 1:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> Paul Norman<br><b>Cc:</b> dev@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSM-dev] Multipolygons as members of a multipolygon<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Paul Norman <<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" target="_blank">penorman@mac.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Personally, I’d regard any multipolygons containing non-ways as being in error.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Unfortunately handing OSM data with too strict rules usually means a lot of it has to be disregarded. Just look at multipolygons Wiki page to see how many exceptions are allowed because people map things differently. So given that OSM Mapnik integration doesn't treat this as an error (it displays the names of both the "parent" multipolygon and of its "children"), I will ignore the relation member rather than rejecting the whole thing.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Igor<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>