On 25 February 2010 18:57, Sam Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course, it's that slippery slope again: at what point will someone > come along and want to map footpaths as areas?! Actually, the GIS data > that I'm most familiar with (not to imply that I'm familiar with it at > all, really) is that of Western Power, where every footpath /is/ an > area, as well as every grassy verge and driveway entrance!
Until we have the ability to include additional information with ways to map widths more accurately, people are going to keep using areas. It'd be nice to have a lot more micro mapping tools at our disposal, but that's the reality of things at present. At the same time, as you pointed out, there is no harm in adding additional areas, unless there is no accompaning way as well, there is information that can't be encoded as areas, and areas can't be scaled well, while it can make maps look nice at high zooms, they become increasingly less useful at lower zooms for things like navigation. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
