[OSM-talk] Example of Multipolygon Lake/Islands?

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Gustav Foseid <gustavf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Can anyone provide a permalink to an example of a lake that uses the
>> multipolygon relation to handle islands? I remember having a link to such an
>> example a while ago but I seem to have lost it.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=59.882&lon=10.83435&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF
>
> Regards,

I don't tag islands in the middle of lakes like that, I just use
coastline without a relation. Where can I read about the advantages of
doing it this way?