[OSM-talk] tagging as for artificial islands

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 08:15:42 GMT 2009


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:37 AM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Any tips for properly tagging this feature:
> http://mayniladailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/01/philippine-relief-map.html
>
> I added the map coastline using the actual coastline of the
> Philippines in OSM, with a whole lot of
> generalization (I think it was  Douglas-Peucker Algorithm).
>
> Use the data layer to view it:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.584958&lon=120.982798&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF

Artificial or not they're still islands in the middle of a lake, and
should thus probably be modeled with a multipolygon relation, I've
just changed it to that:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/67081




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