Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason's diary entry last week (http://j.mp/8ESP8o) > stired my interest. Using a few examples, he showed how mapping > everything as an area - or as a volume - makes ultimate sense. Should we > go for it now ?
Imo, area mapping is too advanced for now. After all, - it's quite hard to get the data (several width measurements required) - there aren't many practical applications - you can't work around some editing problems with shared nodes anymore - we don't have software support for it As the next step for areas where most of the basics are done, I'd rather start lane mapping. It has some very attractive use cases (detailed routing instructions for cars, routing and maps for pedestrians/bicycles) and it's relatively easy to gather the data (you just look at the street, no tools required - not even a GPS). Actually, I don't believe most mappers will be able and willing to produce data that is more precise than what can represented with width tag + lane info any time soon. Of course, if you *want* to map areas in addition to linear road representations, just do it. Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk