[OSM-talk] Best way to draw areas with holes?

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Dec 21, 2007 2:30 PM, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > "polygon with holes" and "splitting outside into peices because it's
> > too long" are incompatable, you either do one or the other.
>
> I don't believe there's any technical reason for this -- if a large way
> can otherwise be split into pieces, and later rejoined by the renderer,
> I don't see why that rejoined way can't be used as the outside of a
> polygon with holes.

Sure, but until someone even *proposes* writing the necessary code it
seems folish to assume it's going to work anytime soon...

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/