> From: James A. Treacy [mailto:tre...@debian.org]
> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Aboriginal Lands
> 
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 08:37:17AM -0600, Tyler Gunn wrote:
> > With wooded areas and lakes I've noticed we tend to just leave them
> > un-merged.  I can imagine for boundaries we'd like to have them
> > merged, especially considering they'd be spanning many tiles.
> 
> This begs the question: are there any reasons to merge areas like wooded
> areas or lakes that are broken up?
> Any reason NOT to merge them?

If you merge too many you end up with un-maintainable multipolygons that bog
down the renderer. I merge lakes but not woods since in BC the woods never
stop


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