2009/10/6 David Earl <[email protected]>: > On 06/10/2009 14:09, John Smith wrote: >> >> Some people are marking the landuse hard up against roads, but this >> isn't correct since the property boundary never touches any roads, at >> least none that I'm aware of, and foot paths etc use the same land use >> area as roads. > > I keep adjacent areas separate, a small number of metres away from the way > for the road, which essentially reflects a model of reality without being > over pedantic about the exact distance. This includes grass in the middle of > islands and the like. Because road widths are exaggerated in the renderers > that means areas neatly abut them when drawn, which is just the way it > should be IMO. If the road moves (due to inaccurate mapping) it does mean > the area has to be moved too, which is somewhat inconvenient. On the other > hand selecting an area which shares edges with ways is a pain, so there is > also some loss of convenience (not to mention lack of reality) in sharing > edges.
We now have property boundaries for about 1/4 of Australia, so this makes it perfectly obvious the property boundaries, and the road usually runs down the middle however that isn't always the case. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
