[OSM-talk-be] Maas/La Meuse disappearing...

Ben Laenen benlaenen at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 11:25:07 UTC 2013


On Friday 04 January 2013 12:12:29 Julien Fastré wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The Maas River disappeared from the map :-)
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.61063&lon=5.55003&zoom=15&layers=M
> 
> It seems that the multipolygon is broken.
> 
> This is due to a newby, which made some change yesterday:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/14511386

I wouldn't recommend creating multipolygons with huge sizes like that btw. 
It's just asking for trouble... The Albertkanaal for example is one 
multipolygon from Antwerp to Liege, it only takes one bad edit to make it 
disappear, and it is quite difficult to repair such objects...

Ben




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