[OSM-newbies] Interior ring with Potlatch?

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 13:11, Tsvi Mostovicz <ttmost at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh, I didn't know they had to be. What do you do when there's a
>> complex of clearly distinct buildings that touch each other? I thought
>> tagging them separately (but sharing ways) was the right thing to
>> do...
>>
>> Steve
>
> I had a similar case over here of multiple buildings touching each other. I
> decided to have them share ways although JOSM's validator complains about it.
> If anyone has a better practice please share it with me.

That's the right way to do it. Just because the validator whines about
something that doesn't mean it's incorrect. It complains loudly about
e.g. boundary areas sharing ways even though that's the best practice.