Hi,

Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> I did not even think about the direction of the ways. And Java also did 
> not. Is there really a reason for way direction except for large 
> structures like oceans (where you by definition cannot decide whats inner 
> and outer otherwise)?

This stems from back when we had segments; an area with a hole would 
then have been *one* way containing two disjunct rings of segments, and 
the renderer would combine them into *one* SVG polygon, and SVG would 
then interpret anything running counterclockwise as a hole.

Bye
Frederik


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