[talk-au] Australian Coastline

[Liz]

On Tue, 25 May 2010, John Smith wrote:
> On 24 May 2010 21:33, Markus <markus_g at bigpond.com> wrote:
> > the coastline from mgkmap creations. I thought it would be a good
> > exercise to see if relations will help.
> 
> Error checking doesn't seem to me to be a good idea to use relations,
> JOSM has a validation checker that should be used for this kind of
> thing.
> 
> > I also plan to add some coastline national parks that are split at the
> > coastline and plan to use the relations for checking my work.
> 
> Add a relation if you have a valid reason to use one, like sharing a
> boundary between sections of land based national park and marine park,
> but using a relation for error checking seems wrong to me.
> 

Because I don't understand
What are the disadvantages of using a relation?