On Tue, November 4, 2008 16:58, Roland Olbricht wrote: > In particular, I'm wondering how I should encode the > coastline-boundary-12-nm-data. As the upload of a lot of ways over the api > will take a lot of time, I would like to avoid doing it twice. > Currently, the > multipolygon-relation, although rarely used, looks best to me but I'm > still unsure.
The Boundaries relation ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/Boundaries ) seems to be the ideal solution. At least, you can differentiate the borders from lakes with islands by looking at the "type" of the relation :-) > So where do I find the consensus whether this is a good idea or not? I'm > grateful for any comments. Do it the OSM way, just use the relation :-) Regards, Hakan -- The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering... _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev