[Tagging] Relation for place archipelago with members place island

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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>> On 14. Dec 2019, at 12:46, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:
> That looks correct, archipelagos are normal multipolygon relations.  


+1


> Building them from the same coastline ways that are used to map the 
> individual islands is the established method for mapping them.

Looking at the individual islands, it is kind of problematic that the linear coastline and the area place=island are not distinguishable: you can’t tell whether that’s the name of the coastline or the island or both, e.g. here 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/55553932#map=8/-3.222/144.098

Or to what the the gns-tags apply...


Cheers Martin 
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