On 11/02/2008, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/02/2008, David Groom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The main problem area seems to be that some people do not like the current > > proposal whereby a river is divided up in to separate closed areas. The > > reason being that the "segment" crossing the river to close the area marks a > > boundary which does not actually exist. Discussion on this could go on > > why is that a problem? i regard this as analogous to breaking a long > road up into shorter ways. there is no property that changes at the > join of the two ways, but for practical reasons (very long ways are > bad), we break a 200km road into shorter pieces.
as a further analogy, to map landuse=residential areas (or commercial, industrial, ...), we don't use one giant area for the whole city, but break it up into smaller areas, along arbitrary lines. breaking a river up similarly is no different at all _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
