[Tagging] Lakes, islands and multipolygons

Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
Fri Oct 16 21:42:57 BST 2009


hi all,
I worked a little more off the coast of tofino

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.1205&lon=-125.9333&zoom=12&layers=0B00FTF

You can see where the error is..
The error was (hopefully) caused by the clock-wise/ counter clockwise switch
i did yesterday, just to see what happens.

. Its interesting to see the green islands just above it.  and just above
that.. take a look at the beach on Vargas Island.   I like how that shows
up....

Any comments on it?

Cheers,
Sam

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:45 AM, sly (sylvain letuffe) <liste at letuffe.org>wrote:

> On vendredi 16 octobre 2009, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
> > Currently big lakes in Finland have been tagged as coastlines which is a
> > good workarounod and looks correct in slippy maps.  However, it is not
> > right, because they are not seas but just lakes.
>
> I would myself prefer to use something else to make it easier to tell
> appart
> sea/lake/river
>
> We have
> * natural=coastline
> * waterway=riverbank
>
> what about something like natural=lakebank or lakeline or waterline to
> define
> lake's bank
>
> (Then put all that in a multipolygon relation natural=water)
>
> > By the way, why do we call all polygons having holes as multipolygons,
> > even if they have only one outer ring? But of course they can be
> > considered as simple multipolygons.
>
> The "multipolygon" name of osm was probably not perfectly choosen ;-)
> It's a "describe them all" from 1 to n polygons. It's not multipolygon in
> the
> GIS sense but hey, does that matter ?
>
>
>
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> sly
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