On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 9:26 PM, James Ewen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Roads as polygons is really poorly supported in OSM, and by poorly >> supported, I mean that for the most part, they're not at all, and >> should be avoided. > > So by association, don't bother trying to draw the edge of the road > using a polygon that defines the adjacent area. > >> I generally avoid landuse altogether, as it's nearly impossible to >> verify, and I've never found a situation in which I needed to know >> what the landuse was for an area I was in, or traveling to. >> >> This, I think, is the best advice for landuse - don't use it. > > Really? Public parks, cemeteries, reservoirs, and the rest are of no > use on the map? Many types of landuse are very easy to identify on the > ground.
I find those amenities, parks, cemeteries, etc. relatively easy to confirm and helpful to have on the map. landuse = residential, vs. commercial vs. light-commercial-industrial-3 or whatever the local municipality designates it, much less so. I prefer that the boundaries of those landuse areas, where they exist, not be tied to the road or other features. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
