On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Dudley Ibbett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Should I try and draw the field boundary along the road in all situations or > only do this when there is a large gap > 3m? > > If I don't draw the field boundary along the road should I link to the road > or should I stop the boundary just short of the road? > > Some guidance would be appreciated as I don't want to link boundaries to > roads if this could cause problems. I think practices vary on this; I prefer to make them separate, partly because the "road" is just the midline of the road, which is not where the field ends, and partly for practicality of later editing: that it's hard(er) to select a way that uses the same points as another one. What I've found is quite easy, and I think looks reasonably neat, is to use the "make a parallel way" tool (in Potlatch, I haven't learnt JOSM yet but I expect it has this too) to take a copy of the road, and move it slightly aside to where the field boundary is, and cut it to be just the piece you need for that field; then turn it into whatever kind of barrier there is around the field (hedge, fence, etc) and also use it as the edge of the field. (That doesn't follow my suggestion of making each way separate for easier selection, but I think it's less likely to want to do things separately to the field and its barrier, than to want to do things separately to the field and the neighbouring road.) __John _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
