[OSM-talk] Question: How to describe groups of islands -> proposal draft

Hendrik T Voelker hvoelker at nutrimatic.de
Wed Sep 17 07:34:33 BST 2008


Am 16.09.2008 um 22:30 Uhr schrieb Erik Lundin:

> All established relations 
> seem to use k='type' v='something' to indicate what kind of relation it 
> is.

Yes, I have seen that. Because of that I had include the question. Nonetheless
I think that it's redundant, as the existence of a group tag should make it
clear that this is a group :) Streets, houses, what ever do it the same way.

> What's the difference between way and area in this context? Wouldn't 
> area be a more natural way to describe an island?

Naturally one would guess that the otline of an island is a closed way tagged
as being a place of type island. Unfortunately that is not the case. Most
often someone just defined a node somewhere on the island.

So we have to be able to use both.

But the requirement for the way is, that it has to be closed

Cheers

Hendrik

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