<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><br><br><div dir="ltr">sent from a phone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 14. Dec 2019, at 12:46, Christoph Hormann <osm@imagico.de> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>That looks correct, archipelagos are normal multipolygon relations. </span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>+1<div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Building them from the same coastline ways that are used to map the </span><br><span>individual islands is the established method for mapping them.</span></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Looking at the individual islands, it is kind of problematic that the linear coastline and the area place=island are not distinguishable: you can’t tell whether that’s the name of the coastline or the island or both, e.g. here </div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/55553932#map=8/-3.222/144.098">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/55553932#map=8/-3.222/144.098</a></div><div><br></div><div>Or to what the the gns-tags apply...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers Martin </div></div></body></html>