[Tagging] Coastlines = relation

[John Smith]

On 13 March 2010 18:09, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> Should all coastlines be mapped & rendered as a relation?
> (instead of 1 super long line that eventually gets connected to form
> an area that gets rendered blue or land, depending on your point of
> reference)

Doesn't need to be either. The coastline checker figures things out
for itself and converts them to a shape file, and ways can't contain
over 2000 nodes any more.