On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Cartinus <[email protected]> wrote: > People who don't like landuse and roads to overlap usually use two arguments: > 1) Trees/grass/etc. don't grow on half of the road.
IMHVO, this is a nonsense argument (not blaming you). A way representing a road represents, at this micro level, an area the width of the road. So, when a footpath and a road connect, this doesn't mean that the middle of the footpath and the middle of the road connect: it means the *edge* of the footpath and the *edge* of the road connect. By the same reasoning, a landuse area sharing a way with a road means that the *edge* of the road connects with the edge of the landuse area. It's particularly appropriate when the boundary of an area is defined by the road or river in question - we're capturing the actual definition of the boundary, rather than another approximation of it. > 2) It is difficult to edit afterwards. Oh? How so? Steve _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
