[mkgmap-dev] Some bounderies shown as river

Fri Oct 8 06:37:37 BST 2010

Am 07.10.2010 21:37, schrieb Torsten Leistikow:
> Josef Latt schrieb am 07.10.2010 20:03:
>> That means that a tagging like this is false?
> ...
> 
>>     <tag k="boundary" v="administrative"/>
> ...
> 
>>     <tag k="waterway" v="river"/>
> 
> If the river itself is the boundary, then this tagging is ok.
> 
> But in such a case, you can't complain, that the boundary is shown as a river,
> because the displayed element is a river as well as a boundary. So it is just a
> matter of display priority.
> 
>>From your screenshot I can now guess, what you mean: There are also other ways
> in the map, which are dislpayed as river, although they are only tagged as
> boundary AND NOT as river at the same time?
> 
> If this is the case, I would guess, that the complete boundary is made up out of
> a multipolygon.
> 
> In this case the multipolygon tagging seems to be faulty. Either all outer ways
> must be tagged the same (this can not be, since one part is tagged as a river,
> while other parts shouldn't be rivers), or the tag values for the multipolygon
> must be placed on the relation instead of the outer ways (this is also not done
> in the example, since the boundary tag is on the way and not on the relation).

That is to high for me, as I'm relativ new in tagging.
But I can't see any difference to other boundaries with IMHO same
tagging. E.g.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.2275&lon=7.4450&zoom=15. It's
rel_546624.

Greetings
Josef