On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > I am thus suggesting that we drop using the special "type=boundary" > relation and instead use a simple "type=multipolygon" for administrative > areas. Everything else would stay the same (boundary=administrative, > admin_level=x, name=y, ...). Members would not carry the roles "exclave" > and "enclave" (which seem to have been difficult to understand for > some), but instead simply "outer" and "inner" just like with plain > multipolygons.
This would be very welcome, I was recently trying to map just such a boundary wondering why this couldn't just be a multipolygon instead of some new type of relation that served exactly the same purpose. Generalization FTW! _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
