[OSM-dev] Relation - Multipolygon = "Area"

Ben Supnik bsupnik at xsquawkbox.net
Tue Apr 19 12:59:47 BST 2011


Hi Frederik,

On 4/19/11 7:53 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> It's a two-step thing. Of course you should be able to map the building
> and say "this is an area". But the renderer might *still* choose not to
> render it as an area (think e.g. of certain kinds of airspace which are
> areas but you will usually only render the outline).

Right...I think the original poster and myself are advocating that a 
spatial notion of area be in the data model, but we are definitely NOT 
arguing to take visualization decision making away from a renderer.

> PS: Not that we want to map airspace. I just found it a fitting example
> given where you're hailing from.

Yeah, who the heck would be interested in airspace? :-)  Probably the 
same argument goes for administrative boundaries.

cheers
Ben

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