[OSM-newbies] Lake Tiorati

[Apollinaris Schoell]

On 8 Jul 2010, at 22:57 , James Ewen wrote:
> On the multipolygon wiki page, it says:
> 
> Tags describing the multipolygon (e.g., landuse=forest) should go on
> the relation.
> 
> The only tag that I can seem to assign with Potlatch is the
> type:multipolygon. Any other tags end up on the way.
> 
> As per the wiki page:
> 
> The outer way(s) should be left untagged, unless they describe
> something in their own right.
> 
> How do you assign tags in the way that the wiki suggests?

this is cleaner from a modeling point of view. tags from the relation will be pushed onto the ways. 
All osm applications support  having the tags on the outer way. this was the easy way to convert existing features into mp when relations have been introduced and it's widely used. choose what you find more convenient.


> 
> James
> VE6SRV
> 
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