[Talk-GB] Alton Water

[Alan Mackie]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2022, 16:36 Jez Nicholson, <jez.nicholson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On the large reservoir Alton Water, would there be any reason why the
> lines that make up the water's edge are not merged into a single
> polygon/way? https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1306769
>
> Perhaps the answer is that they were surveyed as separate stretches.
>

Were they part of their own separate multipolygons at some point? The
mapper may also have thought they were getting close to the node limit for
a single way.

With it having inner members it may just have been easier to split as it
had to be a multipolygon anyway.
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