Re: [talk-ph] to share or not to share nodes?

2010-04-28 Thread maning sambale
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Jim Morgan wrote: > On the other hand I have some misgivings about it, because its a hassle to > un-glue the beach edge and the coastline when you need to edit/move the beach. When you move the beach it makes sense that coastlines move as well. Anyone knows how to

Re: [talk-ph] to share or not to share nodes?

2010-04-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Personally, I am more bothered with overlapping ways than with shared nodes. Nodes should be shared if the two ways sharing that node have an intrinsic positional relationship on that node. If you use two different nodes with the same coordinates, then you risk having the duplicated node problem.

Re: [talk-ph] to share or not to share nodes?

2010-04-27 Thread Jim Morgan
maning sambale wrote, On Tuesday, 27 April, 2010 05:33 PM: > However, in many cases it is good editing practice to minimize node > sharing. > 4. Natural and landuse ways can share nodes. For example, > natural=water (for lakes) can share nodes with landuse=farm. I'm never quite sure how I shou

[talk-ph] to share or not to share nodes?

2010-04-27 Thread maning sambale
Hi, I'm posting this inquiry to gather best practices when editing nodes and ways. Basically, OSM data are composed of two data primitives: nodes (points, vertices) and ways (lines and polygons). Relations are special type of ways and nodes. The data model allows for sharing nodes/ways with dif