Sebastian Klein <bastikln <at> googlemail.com> writes:
> I remember someone said that "Multipolygon" would be misnomer. But > according to this specification, it fits quite well, doesn't it? All the polygons can be called multipolygons. Polygon is a simple variant of a multipolygon, and it can hold only one outer ring. It can still contain however many inner rings, even zero. It is often good for GIS users if in the dataset only "real" multipolygons are presented as such because sometimes some spatial functions do not accept multi-outer-ring things. But yes, OSM multipolygon relations which are most often one-outer-ring-with-holes can be called multipolygons also in the GIS world. -Jukka- > Sebastian > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk <at> openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
