[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 30, Issue 20

[Ed Davies]

80n wrote:
> Break the river up into manageable chunks, with one way for each chunk.
> Where you switch from one bank to the other and start going back up the
> river there is no need to join the two banks with a segment, this takes
> advantage (??) of the ability to have discontinuous ways.

"...no need to join the two banks..."?  I suspect that not joining
them is why the river at Lower Sunbury looks so bad in Osmarender.

<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Data_Primitives#Area>

says:

> All the segments have to join head-to-tail, to form a loop.

I imagine that whoever wrote that meant it.  It's a pity that
areas aren't distinguished at a lower level so that the editing
tools could help check this.

Ed.