[OSM-dev] Applying outer way attributes to multi-polygons
Ben Supnik
bsupnik at xsquawkbox.net
Mon Aug 2 19:13:33 BST 2010
Hi Y'all,
Does anyone have a good set of heuristics for the cases where
OSM-reading software should treat outer-way attributes as applying to a
multipolygon?
From what I can tell there are two possible cases I should look at:
- If the outer multipolygon has _no_ tags (other than type=multipolygon)
then I should probably go get some attributes from the outer ways, or
else the whole multipolygon is a no-op.
- If the outer multipolygon only has one way, then __maybe_- that way
might contain all of the attributes I care about? This second one makes
me nervous because I could have a state park way where the boundary of
the park is a water way with an island in it...the island (inner way)
might be meant to cut a hole in some attributes (like water) but not
others (like park).
I had some heuristics for my data processor I wrote about a year ago,
but when re-running on newer planet data I found it was being fooled by
the newer map, which has a lot more multipolygons and heavy reuse of ways.
If anyone is using a heuristic that has proven robust, I'd appreciate
the hint! :-)
cheers
Ben
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