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I assume that someone in your position would never stoop so low as to threaten to vandalise the map and that therefore that clearly isn’t what your message means.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Frederik Ramm <frederik@remote.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 19 June 2021 21:03<br>
<b>To:</b> talk@openstreetmap.org <talk@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSM-talk] Creating a multipolygon encompassing Black Sea</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Hi,<br>
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On 6/19/21 17:51, mappinglander wrote:<br>
> I actually thought about creating a multipolygon for Black Sea, for <br>
> helping to data consumers and therefore visualizing more easily by <br>
> creating a multipolygon for Black Sea, which is currently tagged as a <br>
> node at <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7015642404">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7015642404</a>
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> <<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7015642404">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7015642404</a>><br>
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Don't do it. I generally replace such giant sea polygons with nodes when <br>
I find them. They make editing unnecessarily difficult for anyone <br>
editing along the coast - any split in the coastline creates a new <br>
version of a giant, several-thousand-member polygon.<br>
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The OSM carto style currently has a shortcoming in that large water <br>
polygons get a nice large label whereas points describing a large water <br>
body don't. This should be sorted out in rendering, and should not lead <br>
people to create giant multipolygons.<br>
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Bye<br>
Frederik<br>
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