[OSM-dev] Am I alone here?

Pieren pieren3 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 16:02:34 UTC 2014


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Sandor Seres <sandors39 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some days ago a mapper sked an the
> Help Forum the following question: "How to make a hole in an area, eg
> woodland.". There were given 6 to 8 answers all incomplete (strictly taken -
> wrong) as how to upload a (new) complex area instead of how to convert an
> existing simple area into a complex area. Any of the instructions leads to
> existence of two almost overlapping areas one as a simple and one as a
> complex area (with a hole). The outer border polygons will lie in a thin
> corridor belt of each other (note, not overlapping) and the hole will never
> be visible. There is a huge number of these area error cases.


If you refer to this question:
https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/8129/how-to-make-a-hole-in-an-area-eg-woodland

It was posted the 25th Sept 2011, not "some days ago". It is true that
the most "voted up" answer (on 3 answers, not 6 or 8) is today a bit
obsolete about iD. But this is normal. iD is the new online editor and
is constantly evolving.

The other "systematic errors" you mention in your googledoc is more
about rendering issues.

Pieren



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