<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> On 12 Aug 2021, at 08:38, Mateusz Konieczny via Imports <<a href="mailto:imports@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">imports@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br>
I disagree. For simple polygons (few nodes), overlapping ways might be the easiest to maintain representation, but as an editor I would always prefer a multipolygon to tens or hundreds of reused/overlapping nodes in overlapping ways.<br></blockquote><div>As a heavy land-cover mapper I agree that multipolygons are vastly easier to improve over time than to try to disconnect overlapping ways.</div><div><br></div><div>That said, unless I'm misreading the wiki the i<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/West_Virginia_State_Forests_Import">mport being discussed</a> is about State Forest (protected area) boundaries not land-cover/land-use. I'd rather not have folks doing land-cover/land-use imports from poor data, but I'm of the opinion that protected area boundaries are often a very good candidate for [careful] importing if the data are of good quality.<br></div></div></div>