I vote for repairing it. I have read the multipolygon and boundary wiki pages again and again and think that they don't allow using the boundary-segment relations to compose the complete boundary relation.
Anyhow mapnik does not support using boundary segments and that's a good explanation why reverting the edit of Loll78 (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/8535622). WanMil > It appears someone (I can't find out who) likes the boundary_segments a > lot. The three boundary_segments of Luxembourg now make up the > Luxembourg border. That's in my opinion inconsistent with map_features > and with the tagging of all other European countries. Personally I > dislike boundary_segments: logically I understand it, although - also > logically- it should also be used on continents, regions, cities > etcetera which would be uncontrollable > > If nobody opposes I'll repair the Luxembourg border relation somewhere > wednesday evening > > Cheers, Johan > > On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:56:24 +0200, WanMil wrote: >> Today I observed that the boundary relation of Luxembourg was changed >> in >> a way that it does not contain the boundary ways itself but links to >> other relations that contain parts of the boundary >> (Luxembourg/Belgium; >> Luxembourg/Netherlands etc.). >> >> I am not sure if that's an accepted scheme for mps/boundaries. >> Does anyone know if that's correct and accepted? >> Should mkgmap support this? >> >> WanMil >> _______________________________________________ >> mkgmap-dev mailing list >> mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk >> http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev > > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev > _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev