2009/11/25 Anthony <o...@inbox.org> > >> > >> I didn't know that was up for debate. I thought the consensus was > >> that they should not only share nodes, but they should share ways as > >> well. > > > > no, I don't think that's a good idea as the resulting multipolygons make > the > > situation unnecessarily complicated. > > > Wow. I hope you're in the minority on that one, because now that I > discovered multipolygon relations there's no way I'm going back to > mapping the exact same line three times (e.g. to represent a park > adjacent to a residential area separated by a fence). > > OK, I put that right (as I'm using multipolygons myself quite a lot): it depends on the situation. If the fence (line between the 2 areas) is consisting of a lot of nodes it might be better to use a multipolygon, but if its just 2-3 nodes, I bet you will never be faster with a relation. You will still be creating the first multipolygon when I already finished all polygons ;-)
cheers, Martin
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