[OSM-talk] Creating a multipolygon encompassing Black Sea

[Joseph Eisenberg]

I also think it is a bad idea to map this or other seas as a multipolygon.

- Joseph Eisenberg

On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 8:57 AM mappinglander <mappinglander at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
> I actually thought about creating a multipolygon for Black Sea, for
> helping to data consumers and therefore visualizing more easily by creating
> a multipolygon for Black Sea, which is currently tagged as a node at
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7015642404
>
> I think this can be done very easily, like the one for Caspian Sea
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3987743> or Aegean Sea
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4594226>. About naming, I am
> going to follow the same convention done at Caspian Sea: putting a name
> that encompasses all of the official languages of countries neighbouring to
> Black Sea. About the complexity of multipolygon, I think it will not be
> more complex than the Aegean Sea or the Caspian Sea. Also, while uploading,
> I am going to divide the upload to chunks via JOSM.
>
> The reasons for writing that to talk mailinglist is getting input from the
> community about whether the multipolygon should be created or not as the
> multipolygon covers a big area, or should I do any kind of corrections
> while uploading.
>
> Feedback is very much appreciated.
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