#4848: Members of multipolygons should inherit visual style
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Reporter: fernando.trebien@… | Owner: potlatch-dev@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: potlatch2 | Version:
Keywords: |
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I've now had to talk to several Potlatch users who deleted or altered map
features because they couldn't understand that thin black lines could be
part of multipolygons. For example, this is a beach and it is correctly
represented in both JOSM and Mapnik's default style:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2884813
Same thing with this park's perimeter:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2745520
Most problems I've had so far were district boundaries getting deleted
because the user thought they were not roads. I minimized this effect by
adding "boundary" tags, which are not required in neither JOSM nor Mapnik
and also not according to the multipolygon logic described in the wiki. I
did it solely to work around Potlatch's display logic. Beaches are nodes
or areas but never ways, so there are no workarounds for this case, as
with many others.
Maybe the users were not so smart, but I think Potlatch, being used mostly
by casual users and newcomers, should avoid misguiding users.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4848>
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