[OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

[Norbert Hoffmann]

Pieren wrote:

>Apart from this tool, I don't like the idea of always putting the tags
>in the relation. If you only have tags on the outer ring, why not. But
>we also have very often tags on the inner ring. And I don't see why we
>should have sometimes the tags in the ways and sometimes in the
>relations just because they use a special relation type. I could also
>say that the tags in the inner ring have the same right to be in the
>relation as the outer ring.

Try to see it like this: A tag on a ring describes a property that belongs
to the whole inside of the ring. So a tag on an "inner" ring has nothing to
do with the relation (that's the meaning of "inner" - an area that does
*not* belong to the area described by the relation).

For "outer" rings it is similar: If you tag a property to the relation you
explicitely say: this property does not belong to the holes (marked with
"role=inner). If you tag the outer ring you don't make clear what you mean.

Norbert