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

Jan-willem De Bleser jw at thescrapyard.org
Fri Jan 4 12:09:02 UTC 2013


Just keep an eye on them, as Julien has done, and teach the new users about
relations as needed. The larger multipolygon is a more accurate
representation, as long as we don't have a proper area data type.

- Jw

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On Jan 4, 2013 12:25 PM, "Ben Laenen" <benlaenen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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