On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:27 PM, James Ewen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Thomas Wood > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There are currently two commonly used border drawing methods: > > 1) Draw a complete closed polygon around the area, sharing nodes where > > they meet other borders. > > Okay, that looks like what I want to do... how do you share nodes? I > see an example where Nonsuch Park abuts Cheam Park. Clicking on a way > defining the park highlights the whole border of that park, including > the shared border. > This method doesn't always work for massive areas - the osmarender renderer may not like very large ways (>5000 nodes I think is the approx limit) > > > 2) Make a border up of separate ways so one way defines one border > > between two places, using a relation to group the pieces of a region's > > border together. > > I see an example of that for the district border just north of A24... > Are you able to define an area using this method? Do the district > names ever show up on the map at a specific zoom level? > Unfortunately not at the moment. So far, there are few completed boundaries - and any that are bulk-imported use the polygon method. It would be nice if someone would get the renderers to apply rendering to grouped sets of ways. > > > I may as well give an example as well. > > http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.3598&lon=-0.2241&zoom=15&layers=0BFT > > Small world... my mother was born in Leatherhead back in 1922... She > might even recognize some of the area if I were to show it to her! > > James > VE6SRV > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies >
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