[Talk-GB] Island in lake ...

Craig Loftus craigloftus+osm at googlemail.com
Sat Jan 28 22:22:32 GMT 2012


>  (in Potlatch, I don't know JOSM)

In JOSM you select the lake outline and the island outline and press
Ctrl+Alt+A (or "Tools" --> "Create multipolygon").

>> I seem to recall something about getting the inner and outer paths running
>> in the correct direction?
>
> I've heard rumours that that was once the case, but I don't think it
> is now.

I think the direction only matters for coastlines, islands in the sea,
which do not make use of relations.

Craig

On 28 January 2012 22:01, John Sturdy <jcg.sturdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
>> OK how do I draw the shape for an island in the middle of a lake ...
>> I seem to recall something about getting the inner and outer paths running
>> in the correct direction?
>
> I've heard rumours that that was once the case, but I don't think it
> is now.  Select the lake outline, use "add to relation" --> "new
> relation" --> "advanced" --> "multipolygon" (in Potlatch, I don't know
> JOSM) and close the "add to relation" box, set the role to "outer",
> then select the island outline, do "add to relation", choose the
> multipolygon you've just created, and set the role to "inner".
>
> __John
>
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