[OSM-talk] connection between 2 islands

[Randy]

OJ W wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
><dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>2009/12/1 OJ W <ojwlists at googlemail.com>
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>>>Edit the coastline so that it joins the islands instead of separating
>>>them....
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>>but won't this operation make one island instead of 2 that they are?
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>>cheers,
>>Martin
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>If they're joined by dry land, they're not technically two islands are 
>they?

Well, they were before the embankment was created, and they might very 
well have different names. Would you say it is a single island with two 
names in that case. and then tag the area way with name_1 and name_2, even 
though the names only apply to one "weight" on each end of the "dumbell"?

I think the islands and the embankment should be defined by three 
different, but adjoining (common nodes at each end of the embankment) areas.

-- 
Randy