On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 14:10 -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> On 2/12/2011 2:01 PM, Val Kartchner wrote:
>  > That was it.  I split the parking lot at the boundary of the land use,
>  > and it now renders correctly.  I'll have to keep this in mind when I'm
>  > drawing parking.
>  >
>  > I figured that since there was very little separation between parking
>  > lots that it should be done as one big one.
> 
> Oh, I didn't even notice the big area to the north. I was talking about 
> the small commercial lot off 48th. Since the two large areas do in fact 
> share parking with absolutely no separation, it's probably best to treat 
> them as one parcel and use the more prominent landuse value (or should 
> it be commercial by default, since retail is a subset of commercial?). 
> Then you can indicate the actual uses of each building (which may be 
> mixed; an office building might have a cafe on the first floor).
> 
> (By the way, the commercial parking to the north still goes slightly 
> into the retail area. Maybe Mapnik calculates the area and draws from 
> biggest to smallest?)
> 
> An area (parking lot, pedestrian, whatever) should only be one piece if 
> it's all connected. Since you can't enter the retail parking lot and get 
> to the small south commercial parking, they should be two separate 
> areas, close *but not touching*.

Okay, I've fixed both of the problems that you noted.

I do like to make things as detailed as I'm able when I'm mapping.

- Val -


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