[OSM-newbies] Interior ring with Potlatch?

[Steve Bennett]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Randy <rwtnospam-newsgp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I still contend that even though the renderer will make this look like a
> contiguous area, the underlying data will contain a discontinuity which
> does not reflect reality,and which, for some future purpose, could cause a
> problem. For example, how do I get from point A to point B without leaving
> the area? (Oops, here's the boundary, is it a real boundary or just a
> pseudo boundary?) So, I'll use multipolygons for interior courtyards, etc.
> because, from my personal view, it is the "safer" approach, and is a
> better way to "map reality" rather than map for the renderers.

Err, I don't think anyone (least of all myself) was advocating using
the hack I described. I simply didn't know about multipolygons.

Steve