[OSM-newbies] Polygons and Properties

[Andy Allan]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Stuart <stuart.srsm at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>  I intend to use a local version of osmarenderer so don't really care about
>  formatting as long as a closed way gets through to the OSM data file as a
>  polygon.

There's nothing in the OSM data file to say which ways constitute
"polygons" - it's up to each application (editors and renderers alike)
to decide. So given that you want to render stuff with osmarender then
you would need to tell it which features you want to render as
polygons, and it doesn't matter what JOSM thinks one way or another.

>  I posted this same comment on the Wiki Talk: Josm. I'm not sure if that is
>  the appropriate forum for a question - speaking of forum I can't figure out
>  the attraction of a mailing list over a forum. Seems designed to make life
>  harder for all involved.

Each to his own. There's http://forum.openstreetmap.org/ if you'd
prefer to use that in future.

Cheers,
Andy