[OSM-newbies] Odd Potlatch 2 rendering

[Kenneth Pardue]

That makes sense.  These waterways were generated from the NHD2OSM scripts.  Perhaps someone should consider updating them?  I'm not knowledgable in Python, myself...


On Jan 6, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Richard Moss wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On Thu 06/01/11 10:37 , Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net sent:
>> 
> 
>> Potlatch 2 will only draw multipolygons which consist of 1 outer way and
>> 1+inner ways, and where the tags are on the outer way. This multipolygon
>> hasseveral outer ways so will not be rendered properly.
>> 
>> You could call this a bug but, to be honest, if people are going to
>> inventinsanely complicated relation structures (aka "advanced
>> multipolygons") andcompletely go against existing OSM tagging practice (putting way tags
>> onrelations),  ...
> 
> I am a bit new to relations, but I thought that the tagging should go on the relation rather that the outer, as at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:multipolygon : "Tags describing the multipolygon (e.g., landuse=forest) should go on the relation. The outer way(s) should be left untagged"
> 
> Have I misunderstood something?
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> newbies mailing list
> newbies at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies