It would be so much simpler if people would just map the area of the road as landuse=highway, in as similar fashion to landuse=railway.
Shaun On 20 Feb 2014, at 22:40, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 20.02.2014 23:04, Dave F. wrote: >> There's a general consensus that attaching polygons to ways that >> represent roads was a bad idea. > > Not really. > > There is not a consensus but a ceasefire. Everyone is free to map this > as they like, and to change it if there's a need - e.g. someone else has > connected the field to the road, now you want to map the fence, so you > need to split it apart. That's ok. Similarly, someone re-doing the whole > area from better imagery or whatever has every right to map as he > pleases - if they thing they can be more efficient by joining > boundaries, more power to them. > > What is *not* ok is one person "cleaning up" after the other without > actually adding any other improvement. > > I.e. if the other guy has connected the fields and the roads and you > have been *only* pulling them apart without contributing anything else > to the area in question, then you should have let them be; on the other > hand, if the other guy has merged fields and roads that previously were > separate, then they shouldn't have done that. > > This whole question is essentially a matter of taste, and you are > allowed to map according to your taste, and discouraged from enforcing > your taste for others. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk