[Talk-GB] Alton Water

[Ed Loach]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2022, 16:36 Jez Nicholson, <mailto: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.

Alan replied
> 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.

I suspect node limit. Version 3 of https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/66564484 had 1937 which is fairly close to the 2000 node limit. Currently it looks like the outer ways could be merged without issue though.

Ed