[OSM-dev] Polygons and Multipolygons
Artem Pavlenko
artem.mapnik at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 8 12:16:03 GMT 2008
On 8 Feb 2008, at 11:58, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> 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.
Yes, indeed. Rendering software (including Mapnik) doesn't really
care about geometrical correctness, because rasterizing algorithms
work just fine with self-intersections etc. The problems are start
popping in when you want to do some kind of analysis, i.e. calculate
a buffer zone for the river basin.
I'm for keeping OSM model as simple as possible, but not simplistic.
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
Cheers
Artem
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