[OSM-newbies] Hollow buildings

[Russ Phillips]

> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:21:32 +0100
> From: Thomas Wood <grand.edgemaster at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Hollow buildings
> To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
> Message-ID: <1213014092.3439.5.camel at debian.3jc>
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> Hi,
> This is a quite common question, since no specific polygon type exists
> currently in the OSM database, we use a relation to describe polygons
> with holes.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Multipolygon
> This wiki page gives a nice walkthrough on how to create holey polygons
> for each of the editors.

Thanks to Thomas & Eric for the responses. I thought it might involve
relations, but I've never used relations before. It's all sorted now,
though.

Russ