On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Adam Schreiber wrote: >> Not if you consider that roads are to be marked down their center line >> and typically the parking area ends to the outside of the center line >> of the road demarking their boundary. > > An argument that I would accept if we'd be tagging roads as areas. But > as long as we tag roads as "idealized" zero-width lines which any > renderer will draw as it sees fit, it does not make a lot of sense to > let the area end precisely at the roadside.
It makes more sense - to me - to place nodes with their actual latitude and longitude, so if the edge of the carpark is right here where I'm standing then marking it in the database as being somewhere 5-10m over to my left seems wrong. Same with two buildings either side of a road, where the edges of both are 10 metres apart, not touching down its centerline. This is because I'm in the "centerline" camp - those of use who believe we're marking the middle of the road for expedience's sake see no problem with a park - for cars or otherwise - coming up short of the road. And it means that areas preserve their actual dimensions instead of growing outwards beyond their actual boundary - an increasingly proportionately large problem as we add ever smaller details to OSM. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
