Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Gustav Foseid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Hi Can anyone provide a permalink to an example of a lake that uses the >>> multipolygon relation to handle islands? I remember having a link to such an >>> example a while ago but I seem to have lost it. >>> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=59.882&lon=10.83435&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF >> >> Regards, >> > > I don't tag islands in the middle of lakes like that, I just use > coastline without a relation. Where can I read about the advantages of > doing it this way? > > There were a lot of (lengthy) discussions about it on this list. I guess the main advantage is that you specify a lake more precisely in physical terms - it consists of water and islands inside the lake. Just using higher layer tags for island is more of a hint for rendering software and does not specify any relation between the lake and its islands.
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