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<p>Hi all,</p>
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<p>I am currently (armchair) mapping rural areas in Japan, that means realigning nearly all</p>
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<p>Whenever I am mapping landuse=farmland areas I wonder whether I should <br>
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<p>1) draw one rather large polygon stretching across all highway=track ways <br>
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<p>and small buildings which are likely used by the farmer and waterway=ditch ways or</p>
<p>2) draw small polygons so that none of these objects is "covered".</p>
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<p>Obviously option 1) is easier and results in rather few landuse polygons while 2) is</p>
<p>much more work and results in many typically nearly rectangular shapes.</p>
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<p>My current approach is this:</p>
<p>a) I prefer NOT to draw landuse polygons across a major highway or a track with tracktype=grade1.</p>
<p>b) When a building looks like a building=barn I prefer to think of it as part of the farmland .
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<p>(I am always unsure about greenhouses on farmland.)<br>
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<p>c) I also think of ditches (not going along roads) as part of farmland, so I draw polygons across them.<br>
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<p>My problem: When I start to draw these polygons I feel an urge to complete the work,
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<p>and that can be quite time consuming ;-) </p>
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<p>Is there a tool for this ? Maybe a plugin for JOSM ?<br>
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<p>Or maybe I should go more in direction of option 1) first and let locals do the details ?<br>
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<p>Gerd<br>
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