[OSM-talk] Multipolygon tags removed

[Andrzej Zaborowski]

2010/1/1 Katie Filbert <filbertk at gmail.com>:
> I recently added some buildings to OSM that have courtyards, thus added a
> multipolygon relation to them.  I notice now that some of these buildings
> are not rendering on OSM.  Looking at the history, Ropino removed the
> multipolygon tag from the relation on December 8.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/338011/history
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/357268/history
>
> Did I do something wrong with tagging buildings how I did?  I think I tagged
> them correctly and undid these two.
>
> I want to understand what (and why) Ropino is doing?  Are these mistakes on
> his/her end, in deleting the tags, and if so, do we have the ability to
> revert the changeset?

This is likely because the members of these two multipolygons didn't
have roles assigned in the relation and instead had tags role=inner
and role=outer -- may that be the editor's fault?  That said I believe
Ropino's removal of the tag is vandalism either way.

Cheers