[OSM-newbies] Adjacent areas

[Richard Weait]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Werner Horsch <werner.horsch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 1) Cut the ways to the segments around the place
>> 2) select all them in the right order one after the other
>> 3) create relation
>> 4) role --> outer for all ways
>> 5) tags: type=multiplygon, leisure=park/amenity=prison/what ever,
>
> Split ways... re-assemble ways... create new relations...
> I hope you see that drawing a new square with 4 new nodes is the
> fastest and easiest.

It is unlikely that the prison extends to the mid-line of adjacent roads.  :-)