On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
> You have probably not read the posting to which Jochen refers. It is here: > Read, but not understood (even if I did try...) > It distinguishes between "boundary=administrative" (which would denote the > political boundaries, be they on water or on land), and > "land_area=administrative" (for the land area). Other than this distinction, > both are tagged the same. A landlocked country will have just one border > relation that is tagged boundary=administrative AND > land_area=administrative, whereas a country with maritime borders will have > two relations that partly use the same ways, partly not. > > Crucially, the coastline ways are never tagged with any boundary tag; they > are just included as-is in the land_area=administrative relation. So, a renderer will need to understand realtions to be able to render any borders? Would it not be a good idea to combine this relation with a specific set of tags for maritime borders? I still have not seen a ruleset (for any renderer) that does not render the halos around coastlines. - Gustav
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