[OSM-dev] Polygon relationificator

[Frederik Ramm]

Ian,

> This feature could be added, but could you draw a couple pictures to 
> explain what you mean? What happens with the graph edges inside the 
> multipolygon? Since they aren't really polygons, do they belong in a 
> multipolygon relation? Maybe I'm not correctly interpreting what you meant.

The typical case is a shapefile with a mesh of, say, post code 
boundaries or county boundaries or so for a larger area. You will 
typically have lots of individual polygons, but running them through 
shp2osm as-is will duplicate nodes along the borders. The goal is to 
split up the polygons into their border lines, and then create OSM 
multipolygon relations where the border consists of several of those 
lines, and every line is used by two adjacent polygons (rather than 
importing the line twice just because it was present twice in the shape).

Bye
Frederik