Greetings everyone, I've just had a short changeset discussion with mapper glebius prompted by changeset 46612750 "Properly multipolygonize Monterey coast line". My understanding is that the map of this stretch of coastline has been restructured to avoid adjacent ways that share nodes. Accordingly, only a single way ever connects any set of nodes, and the single way participates, if necessary, in multiple relations. A result of this is that in a high density area like downtown Monterey Bay many small areas like building footprints or pedestrian areas are defined as distinct multipolygons, with several ways (outers) making up the outline. An example at:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/36.61726/-121.90045 (look at Hovden Way near the top, or the outline of 700 Cannery Row, further down near Bubba Gump, comprised of seven outer ways) glebius believes that this approach (with the help of the reltoolbox JOSM plugin) is easier and less error-prone than having multiple simple closed ways (eg, a building footprint and an adjacent pedestrian area) sharing a set of nodes on their adjacent boundary. . (I hope I'm representing this accurately, glebius will correct me if I'm getting it wrong). In my limited experience I've never encountered this before, and at first sight I'm not convinced, particularly when considering future maintenance. I told glebius that I wanted to find out what the community thought. Is this just one more valid optional way of mapping? To be recommended for adoption if possible? Or to be avoided? Thoughts? _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us