Hi, > Given a complete set of coastline polygons (e.g. VMAP0), and somehow > removing the clockwiseness of them, please have your computer tell > me if Australia is either an island or a lake.
Which is completely theoretical because a polygon of this size could not be processed in OSM without major trouble. Before we start thinking about such things we will have to refine our tools to be able to work with partial objects. This would for example require a "modify way" call whereby you can specify "insert node #483726 at position #99281 into the existing way". Which we might have at some time but surely not with API 0.6. I am indifferent about the (re-)addition of a proper area type but I am firmly against creating more cases where the direction of something has a meaning. I don't *want* people to be able to draw a little circle and specify that the world outside that circle is a forest. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
