On Monday, January 28, 2013, Werner Hoch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Montag, den 28.01.2013, 17:26 +0100 schrieb Tobias Knerr:
> > Nevertheless, there appears to be a trend to merge them into a single
> > area for the entire river via multipolygons. This has been brought to my
> > attention by a recent ch
On 28/01/2013 17:53, Toby Murray wrote:
But being able to do a search for
"Danube River" and getting back a single object from nominatim would
be nice.
Here is a conflict. Creating a tagging convenience for one tool can have
negative impacts on other tools. At least nested relations separate t
In theory, I like trying to go towards "one feature in the world ==
one feature in OSM" but of course we break that theory a lot by
splitting roads for various reasons. But being able to do a search for
"Danube River" and getting back a single object from nominatim would
be nice.
As pointed out, i
Hi,
Am Montag, den 28.01.2013, 17:26 +0100 schrieb Tobias Knerr:
> Nevertheless, there appears to be a trend to merge them into a single
> area for the entire river via multipolygons. This has been brought to my
> attention by a recent changeset
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/1480
Malcolm Herring wrote:
> On 28/01/2013 16:26, Tobias Knerr wrote:
> > I'd like to hear your opinions.
>
> +1
> As a developer of both editing and rendering software, such data
> structures are troublesome. I dislike multipolygons with multiple
> disjunct outers both as a mapper & as a develo
On 28/01/2013 16:26, Tobias Knerr wrote:
I'd like to hear your opinions.
+1
As a developer of both editing and rendering software, such data
structures are troublesome. I dislike multipolygons with multiple
disjunct outers both as a mapper & as a developer. I have had to abandon
edits when
Am 28.01.2013 um 17:26 schrieb Tobias Knerr :
> Am I missing something?
Dont think so.
> I'd like to hear your opinions.
My opinion is your opinion: if there is no good reason for gigantic areas,
don't use them.
Martin
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Dear tagging list,
as many of you may know, it is documented practice that riverbank areas
can be split into several small parts, as illustrated in this image:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Make_river.png
Nevertheless, there appears to be a trend to merge them into a single
area for the
