On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:46 PM, James Ewen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the proper way to define two adjacent areas? > > To make this simple, let's say I have 2 squares that share a common > side. Do I define two areas with 4 sides, defining 2 ways between the > two common points, one way being the perimeter of square 1 and the > second way being the perimeter of square 2? > > Or do I define a single way between the two common nodes, and then > somehow define the area of square 1 as being the three unique ways, > and the common way, and similar for area 2?
Or a third option, which is to define the two squares reeeaaally close together but using 8 nodes in total. Or a fourth option which... But this is a great a matter of great debate, which is not best rehashed on the newbies list. If you're interested in some fairly recent discussion from the talk list, see http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-May/thread.html#26305 And do whatever you feel comfortable with! Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies

