Ian, Ian Dees wrote: > Why that? I think that having tags on the outer way is a legacy > thing; when I create new multipolygons, I leave the outer way > untagged and put the tags on the relation only. > > This becomes especially important if the outer ring consist of > multiple ways. > > > Initially I had implemented it so that the tags go on the > type=multipolygon relation (and this almost always worked with JOSM and > Mapnik), but then I re-read the Relation:multipolygon wiki page [0] and > saw that the first section of the page says "tags describing the > multipolygon should go on the outer way."
What's most embarrassing is that I wrote that recommendation 18 months ago and it has never been changed. Until a few minutes ago ;-) It's really not a big deal at the moment but my motivation to recommend tagging the relation is mainly because of (1) consistency - if you have more than one outer way you must tag the relation, so why not do it if you only have one, too. (2) future proof - I'm thinking of the multipolygon relation as the nucleus of a future area data type, thus it makes sense for me to tag the multipolygon (the area) and not its building blocks. Entirely my opinion of course. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
