[OSM-newbies] island in a lake

[Stefan Baebler]

> > I recently mapped a lake (natural=water) with an island (leisure=park,
> > layer=1). Is there a more correct way to do that, without artificially
> > making the island a park?
rendered as:
http://www.informationfreeway.org/index.php?lat=5838668.47319&lon=1568547.19689&zoom=14&layers=B000000

> There are more than one way to do this, but none is correct in all respects.
>
> My favorite solution would be to use the same way for the lake and the
> island, so the island basically becomes a hole in the lake area.
> For that you'd make sure the lakeshore is drawn clockwise, while the
> islands are drawn counterclockwise.
I did so at first (water on right side principle), but JOSM complained
about an unordered way.

> Yes, Maplint will complain about non-contiguous ways. IMO you can safely
> ignore this in this case, because these ways are not used for routing
> later on.
Would be cool if maplint and JOSM wouln't warn about that, allowing
holes in areas.

Tnx,
    Stefan

PS: Have seen the related mails on talk@ list.