[OSM-dev] Looking for guidance on interpreting multipolygon relations

Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-list at deelkar.net
Mon Nov 5 22:44:02 GMT 2007


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bvh schrieb:

> 
> PS. Am I mistaken in thinking that you must certainly _not_ substract
> the holes area because otherwise you could easily make an 'outer'
> relation that has a smaller area than a 'inner' relation and thus
> have the inner relation rendered before the outer one?

We're working on a sphere, so basically "inner" and "outer" are a matter
of definition. The canonical solution would be to define the "smaller"
one the inner, but the opposite would not be wrong, just odd.

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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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