Andy quoted Frederik: > > 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.
And added: > 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. I would agree, and if Frederik does want to tag roads as areas he could use the width= and/or est_width= tags, although it is unlikely that the renderers use them, assuming that the widths they currently render are based on just the highway= value and doesn't take into account any width tags (though I may be wrong). Ed _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
