here is a bridge style pier drawn as an area that is rendering with water on the inside I was wondering if [this][1] is an known issue/bug or if there is a standardized way of dealing with piers with two or more ways for example making it a multipolygon relation. thanks. [1]: <iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://www.openstreetmap.org/export/embed.html?bbox=-117.17080682516097%2C32.69890634180274%2C-117.16898828744887%2C32.70030801191927&layer=mapnik&marker=32.69960605105383%2C-117.16989755630493" style="border: 1px solid black"></iframe> asked 27 Mar '14, 16:02  flockfinder |
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Right now it's being rendered correctly for how it's mapped: as two separate linear piers lying end-to-end. I don't see any reason for having the pier made up of two ways. Simply join them into a single closed loop way to make it into an area. Yes, a multipolygon could be used to make the two ways into one pier area, but that's overkill when it could simply be mapped as a single way. answered 27 Mar '14, 16:40  alester |
Thanks alester, I deleted the shorter of the two ways and extended the longer way to form a closed way. It appears to be rendering correctly now. If I recall correctly, when I first worked on this pier months ago it was a single way. I came along and felt like making it an area, so I closed the way thinking it would form a solid platform area. For some reason, it created two ways rather than continuing the already existing single way. But today I noted that it didn't make a single platform area. Fortunately when I extended the way today it just continued the way enabling me to make it a single closed way.