On 18/08/2011 12:14, Donald Campbell II wrote:
I'm wondering what the proper way to create an adjacent area is. For
example here
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=6.805586&lon=-58.161404&zoom=18&layers=M>
there's a prison that takes up a full city block. Does one draw a
square using the same 4 existing nodes from the intersections around
it? Or should one zoom in and put 4 new nodes close to the existing ones?
I do most of my editing in JOSM but can also use Potlatch when the
need arises.
It's best in this instance to create the way using new nodes. In the
editors think of the highways way as an infinitesimally narrow centre
line to represent the road. Only in the various rendering are they
given any representative width.
The prison perimeter doesn't reach the middle of the road (half the
width/sidewalk/grass verge etc). If it did use the existing nodes & you
wanted to tag the entrance gate, that gate would appear to be blocking
the road.
As you probably realize, prisons, disappointingly, don't render as an
area in the main renders.
Also, the created_by tag is deprecated for ways. I think it's stored in
the changset data.
Cheers
Dave F.
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