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Hello dear friends!

Pls, may wonder how can i, and ever i create a polygon (woods) by drawing a line (white one without tags) in web0-editor iD?

if i delete dependencies from lake-coast (wich is multypolygon by itself) and then cut it on fist and second forming dot's - then i can create new multypolygon from 2 lines but after doing so - lake is gone completely

Hope for help

  • Maybe anyone can reccomend YouTube or other sources tutorial video's for web-editor iD?

Thank you

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[–] amelore@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Draw it as a polygon, not a line.

Ideally you do go over the points of the shoreline, but if you skip some and the forest doesn't overlap with the lake that's a good start, it can be refined later.