On 19. November 2010 13:40 Andrew Errington [a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk] wrote:
> I wish to tag an island with its name. Except that the name refers to a > group of islands, and each of these islands have their own name. > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.24164&lon=131.86871&zoom=16&layers=M > The name is Dokdo (-do is Korean for 'island'), but this is the name of > the group of islands (two main ones and some smaller named rocks around > them). There is no single island called Dokdo. The two main islands in > the group are Seodo (Seo is 'West') and Dongdo (Dong is 'East'). > So I suppose there are two questions: > 1) What is the correct way to tag a group of islands with their well-known > name when the names of the individual islands are not well-known or > commonly used and are different to the name of the group? > 2) If the answer is 'use a relation', have I done it properly, and if so, > why isn't Mapnik rendering the name properly? 1) Imho it's mapped correctly using a multipolygon relation. 2) If and how a feature is rendered is up to the renderer. The mapper can't and imho shouldn't try to control this. Two examples: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/963669 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/963209 Happy mapping Willi _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
