[OSM-dev] Applying outer way attributes to multi-polygons

Matthias Julius lists at julius-net.net
Tue Aug 17 14:00:37 BST 2010


Am 14.08.2010 08:39, schrieb Sebastian Klein:
> The situation you describe (multipolygon: natural=water; outer way:
> leisure=park & natural=water), is a little ambiguous, though: In strict
> interpretation, there would be 2 water areas. This is probably not the
> intention, so I would consider natural=water on the outer way a legacy
> artefact and ignore it.

Well, I wouldn't.  I would call that a bug in the data.

Every time a software has to guess what is right it makes the software 
more complex and hides issues in the data.

One (in)famous example of this is quirks mode in web browsers.

Matthias



More information about the dev mailing list