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

[Alex Mauer]

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> 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...

Just saying, that to say they're incompatible is overstating the problem.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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