[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1. The area shares some nodes with the highway, creating overlapping ways.
> 2. The area shares no nodes and was drawn as close as possible to the road.
>
> I couldn't find any recommendations in the wiki on which option to prefer.
I prefer sharing nodes.
> Overlapping ways allow a cleaner data model and saves nodes. But editing such
> ways is quite a hassle. There is currently no function to split nodes so that
> ways can be separated again. So if the border of the area needs to be
> changed, the complete area has to be redrawn (at least to my knowledge).
JOSM handles overlapping objects reasonably well (using the middle-click
menu). If you need to separate the ways you can add a new node to each
way individually and then delete the shared node - could be neater, but
it isn't bad.
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