On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Teemu Koskinen wrote: >> The method to leave a little space beside the road is broken by design >> and as geodesy is my profession I have the little advantage that map >> making is a part of my profession. Databases where one feature did not >> directly join with the next one cause and caused a lot trouble in GIS >> and will also cause in OSM (when we start to use the data for something >> else beside making a map). > > But that is not mapping what's on the ground, on the ground the landuse > does not extend to the center of the road. OSM is not GIS, and it > shouldn't be.
Mapping also means generalizing. This means you do NOT map what is EXACTLY on the ground, but you map what it means and is sensible. > Definitely not, IMO the warning should be elevated to an error, when > dealing with wide linear features (roads, rivers, etc.). It is no error in any case. Ways and lines can overlap. Why should that be an error? Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev