[OSM-talk] Creating a multipolygon encompassing Black Sea

[Mateusz Konieczny]

+1, it would be a nightmare to maintain

For such massive objects with complicated naming situation,
often uncertain borders (maybe not a large problem for Black Sea),
where local knowledge, manual survey are not contributing much
their value in OpenStreetMap is dubious.

It will produce mainly edit conflicts, broken relation, naming disputes,
(see Persian Gulf thread happening right now), confusing rendering
in editors (especially iD).


Jun 20, 2021, 07:07 by joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com:

> 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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