NOTICE: help.openstreetmap.org is no longer in use from 1st March 2024. Please use the OpenStreetMap Community Forum

Is there a way to group several different closed ways so that they display as one closed way on the OSM layers and in Nominatim? Example- Neighborhoods sometimes have parts of them that don't really link to each other but are still part of one large neighborhood.

asked 15 Dec '13, 04:48

ItalianMustache's gravatar image

ItalianMustache
201101117
accept rate: 0%


  1. OSM is very clear you shouldn't add data or tags just so something displays on a certain renderer. I think that concept would apply to Nominatim too: add and tag the things that exist.
  2. That said, a multipolygon relation should do the trick, ie http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=9151190154 :)
permanent link

answered 15 Dec '13, 12:08

neuhausr's gravatar image

neuhausr
7.5k870121
accept rate: 21%

This doesn't seem to do the trick for rendering in all layers after searching with Nominatim. In some cases, I am trying to map neighborhoods as residential areas that span across islands that don't touch. Is what I did in http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=9151190154 going to do the trick for this?

(18 Jan '14, 18:38) ItalianMustache

Follow this question

By Email:

Once you sign in you will be able to subscribe for any updates here

By RSS:

Answers

Answers and Comments

Question tags:

×236

question asked: 15 Dec '13, 04:48

question was seen: 2,137 times

last updated: 18 Jan '14, 18:38

NOTICE: help.openstreetmap.org is no longer in use from 1st March 2024. Please use the OpenStreetMap Community Forum

First time here? Check out the FAQ!

×