... And when there is a hedge or fence alongside the road with a stile or gate through the hedge giving access to the footpath? The stile is neither in the road, or at the footpath / road junction node, nor in the field adjacent to the road ... I don't think it is such a clear-cut situation as you (rather vigorously IMHO (;>) imply ...
Mike Harris > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Bennett [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 12 January 2010 04:23 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Ungluing in Potlatch > > 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
