[OSM-talk] Creating a multipolygon encompassing Black Sea

[Mateusz Konieczny]

"good faith edits done in way that I dislike it" is not a vandalism

Neither creation of such megarelation nor its conversion to a node would be
a vandalism if done with a goal of improving OpenStreetMap.

Jun 20, 2021, 12:37 by andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk:

> I assume that someone in your position would never stoop so low as to threaten to vandalise the map and that therefore that clearly isn’t what your message means.
>
> --
> Andrew
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> From:>  Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
>  > Sent:>  19 June 2021 21:03
>  > To:>  talk at openstreetmap.org <talk at openstreetmap.org>
>  > Subject:>  Re: [OSM-talk] Creating a multipolygon encompassing Black Sea>  >  
> Hi,
>  
>  On 6/19/21 17:51, mappinglander wrote:
>  > 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>  
>  > <> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7015642404> >
>  
>  Don't do it. I generally replace such giant sea polygons with nodes when 
>  I find them. They make editing unnecessarily difficult for anyone 
>  editing along the coast - any split in the coastline creates a new 
>  version of a giant, several-thousand-member polygon.
>  
>  The OSM carto style currently has a shortcoming in that large water 
>  polygons get a nice large label whereas points describing a large water 
>  body don't. This should be sorted out in rendering, and should not lead 
>  people to create giant multipolygons.
>  
>  Bye
>  Frederik
>  
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