On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Pieren <[email protected]> wrote: > But if you have two parallel ways not sharing nodes, it's also painful to > adjust them when the topology is adjusted (say the boundary is following the > road which was traced on bad GPS trace) because you have to select pairs of > nodes.
That validator also gets pretty angry at me since they're all basically duplicate nodes. > The way is the centerline plus the road as a whole. It's an abstraction. If > you don't like this, then draw a polygon. For instance, if you draw an > intersection between a footway and a highway, do you cut the footway 2 > meters before the intersection and 2 meters after the intersection because > the 4 meters are on the road ? If you start micromapping, you have to do > that everywhere and consistently. I see your point about road center lines. What about river center lines? I was under the impression that many administrative boundaries do correspond exactly. Russell -- Russell Harrison Photography 8301 Greenhead Ct. Raleigh, NC 27615 919-926-9972 http://russellharrison.com/photo/ _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
