On Friday 14 March 2008 02:15:13 you wrote: > Hi, > > > If I understand this correctly, then for a forested island in a lake > > you'd need to have the island twice in the osm data. Once for the hole in > > the lake and once for the forest on the island. > > No. > > Assuming for a moment that you really wanted to model the forest as a > "hole in the island", which doesn't make a lot of sense to me since I > don't generally map forests as holes in the country, but I understand > it's only a example, then the island would be there only once, be part > of two relations, one where it would play the "outer" role to the > forest and one where it would play the "inner" role to the lake. > > Bye > Frederik
I don't want to model the forest as a hole in the island. What I am talking about is an island and a forest that are completely coterminous. Since there are no holes in the forest it is a simple polygon and thus has no "outer" role. -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
