For Paisley Place, maybe: abandoned:highway = residential access = no name = Paisley Place note = Your description of what the GIS people say.
Since it needs to exist for addresses, it needs to be there. For the reservoir: landuse = reservoir intermittent = yes -- Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology On May 23, 2016 12:41:17 PM EDT, Steve Friedl <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi all, > > > >I have two things that I just don't quite know how to map. Sorry that >I >have to provide Google Maps views to demonstrate. > > > >1) How does one represent a named street which is really a >greenbelt: >never been drivable, was assigned a name just to allow attaching a >street >name to the houses on either side. > > > >Example: In Irvine California there's a residential area shown here: > > > >https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7298257,-117.7572128,19z > > > >I'm referring to Paisley Place, which is shown as a named alley >connecting >Garden Gate Lane and Winslow Lane. > > > >After surveying the area and seeing that the City of Irvine GIS showed >Paisley as that greenbelt, I reported it as an error (as I've done >dozens of >times for other things), but the very helpful GIS manager reported that >this >is correct (but certainly odd), and the two street-like things on >either >side of it are just unnamed alleys. > > > >How do I represent this in OSM? It's not a street that doesn't allow >access, it's not really even a street! > > > >2) How do I represent a parking-lot-sized area that's intended to >collect rainwater that fills a cistern? > > > >In the Santa Ana Mountains in Southern California, the satellite views >show >something that looks exactly like a helipad: > > > >https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7875181,-117.5805174,419m/data=!3m1!1e3 > > > >But it's not. That whole huge surface - paved in asphalt - is tilted >slightly so that rainwater water will collect and fill the two cisterns >to >the left (zooming in you can barely see the pipe from the big pad to >the >cisterns. > > > >I cannot find anything that's even close to describing what this is, >but >it's so prominent on the maps (and interesting to visit) that I seems >like >it should be there even if to make note that it's not a helipad. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Steve - who hopes the links above work. > >--- > >Stephen J Friedl | Security Consultant | UNIX Wizard | 714 345-4571 > > <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] | Southern California | >Windows Guy | unixwiz.net > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-us mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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