[Imports] Fwd: Importing West Virginia State Forests Boundary

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Thu Aug 12 07:06:27 UTC 2021



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> On 12 Aug 2021, at 08:38, Mateusz Konieczny via Imports <imports at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 
> (2) multipolygons are evil
> Why way duplication/lack of multipolygons would be a problem?
> Multipolygonised landuse is horrific to edit, even to experienced mappers
> and effectively blocks mapping by a new users


I disagree. For simple polygons (few nodes), overlapping ways might be the easiest to maintain representation, but as an editor I would always prefer a multipolygon to tens or hundreds of reused/overlapping nodes in overlapping ways.

Cheers Martin 





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