[OSM-talk] osm2pgsql multipolygon parsing

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Sun Sep 22 06:15:38 UTC 2013



> Am 22/set/2013 um 04:14 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>:
> 
> It's most likely that these people are not familiar with relations and they see an outer way with no building=yes tag and decided to "helpfully" tag it.
> 
> Because of this, a more complicated interpretation of tags, such as Frederik's, leads to less breakage (think rendering) and is more in line with people's expectations.


it leads to more broken data in the end, because it will continue to look OK on the map and many mappers are checking this visual feedback in order to judge their mapping.

cheers,
Martin


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