[OSM-dev] Polygons and Multipolygons

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemeD.net
Fri Feb 8 11:58:31 GMT 2008


Frederik Ramm wrote:

> True. What we had been looking for was a term for "polygons with
> holes"; it seemed unreasonable to create a relation "type=polygon" as
> plain polygons, without holes, don't require relations. But
> multipolygon is somewhat of a misnomer.

It would be a "compound path" in Illustrator.

cheers
Richard




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