On 8 Feb 2008, at 11:50, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > >> I found the way term 'Multipolygon' is used in OSM context is >> confusing. > > True. What we had been looking for was a term for "polygons with > holes"; it seemed unreasonable to create a relation "type=polygon" > as plain polygons, without holes, don't require relations. But > multipolygon is somewhat of a misnomer. > >> Shouldn't we be calling MultiPolygon Polygon? > > There are only 2788 in the database so it would not be too hard to > change. I wanted to automatically add the "inner" and "outer" flags > to the existing polygons anyway, although they're not strictly > required they would make processing easier for some.
I think having 'outer' and 'inner' flags/tags will help at the data entry stage as well. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00.09' E008° > 23.33' > Artem > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
