[OSM-talk] Waterway rel with mix of line & poly

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 23:31:36 UTC 2018


On 21/09/18 06:11, Jem wrote:
> Thank you both. That's very helpful.
>
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 at 22:25, Dave F <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com 
> <mailto:davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     Short answer: Yes
>
>     There's a few problems here:
>
>     Relations should not be used to collect thing together.
>
? That is what they can be used for. See the site relation as an example.
>
>     There shouldn't be tags on the ways which conflict with those in
>     the relations
>
True.
>
>     MP relations require a 'type' tags and 'inners' & 'outers' roles
>
True
>
>     In this case the Southern section shouldn't be a polygon
>
Did not look.
>
>     MP relations should be restricted to the areas which have inners:
>     https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2571440#map=19/51.15275/-2.05045
>
No. They can be used to collect a series of outer ways to form the 
boundary of a feature e.g. an administration boundary usually shares 
ways with adjacent administrations.

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