[Tagging] Another multipolygon question

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Sat Oct 20 11:20:15 UTC 2018



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> On 20. Oct 2018, at 11:38, Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> But yesterday I tried something new, new for me anyway, and that was to create a single-member multipolygon from the coastline way and then tag the resultant relation with natural=wood in order to reduce the number of nodes used. I was pleased that JOSM didn't complain and that the island seemed to render okay but I'm not sure this is a legitimate procedure


I also do this, for example if there’s a fence but I also want to tag the area it delimits. Or for buildings and things that are there, in some cases.


Cheers, Martin 


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