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

[Ben Laenen]

On Friday 04 January 2013 13:09:02 Jan-willem De Bleser wrote:
> 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.

It's not really more accurate, as we don't have a one to one mapping from real 
life objects to OSM objects. Our roads for example are also often split up 
into many pieces. And by breaking up a huge object into manageable parts you 
can more easily repair it when someone does something wrong, which still 
matters because we don't have a review process so we can intervene before the 
bad edit is uploaded.

Ben