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

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Tue Apr 19 13:06:25 BST 2011


Hi,

On 04/19/11 13:59, Ben Supnik wrote:
> 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.

My main issue with the original poster was that he wrote this as if the 
idea had just occurred to him and was a totally new concept, when in 
fact we've been discussing the issue for about 4 years, and it was 
profusely documented on the Wiki on a page that he mentioned in his post ;)

Bye
Frederik



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