[OSM-talk] Tagging areas

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Friday 06 Oct 2006 23:17, David Groom wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christoph Eckert" <ce at christeck.de>
> To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 7:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging areas
>
> > Argh,
> >
> >> Map features defines natural=water, which works perfectly for me.
> >
> > thanks a bunch. Now I learned what map features is for :) .
> > Anyway, another problem has risen. I created nodes, then segments and
> > made the lakes a way:
> > http://christeck.de/stuff/natural-water01.png
> >
> > Then I assigned natural=water. Now the contour was damaged in JOSM:
> > http://christeck.de/stuff/natural-water02.png
> >
> > All segments have been drawn in the same direction, if that matters. But
> > regardless that it looks a bit weird in JOSM, it rendered properly via
> > osmarenderer:
> > http://christeck.de/stuff/natural-water03.png
> >
> > Is this only a display weakness in josm and I don't need to care about
> > it? I didn't trust it, so I only commited the ways as such to osm, not
> > tagged as natural=water.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> Are you using the custom version of JOSM, with "colour ways according to
> tagging" checked?  If you are I noticed a similar effect on a lake at
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=50.72998735000275&lon=-1.147638
>9736472354&zoom=15
>
> With "colour ways according to tagging" unchecked the way looks as I would
> have expected, ie the outline of the lake is correct, but when "colour ways
> according to tagging" is checked one corner of the lake seems to get cut
> off.  As far as I can tell this is just a display problem, and the actual
> way is tagged and stored correctly.
>
> David

Sorry - this must be a bug. Will check it out.

Nick