On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 04:02:19PM -0800, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > To say that "the park occupies the space between these four streets" is a > very reasonable first approximation model.
.... .... > It's the micro-mapping that brings up hard to process situations. Imagine > that same area micromapped: > road centerline, cycle tracks, power poles, fence, hedge, imported legal > property boundary of the park. To render that well for various needs > you've got to start shoving and pushing element. To render the highway > "fat" you need to push out the cycle track and fence lines. Should you > also shove over the hedge or just bury it under the roadway? It's unclear > what's best. not the only problem. Attaching areas to ways is making a special class of mapping mistakes happen easy. If the four areas are attached to highways that have a grade separated crossing many times people accidentaly make a node connecting the highways right into the middle of the bridge where the four areas join. Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
