[OSM-dev] OSM based replacement for builtup_area.shp in standard style

Paul Norman penorman at mac.com
Tue Jun 3 19:38:54 UTC 2014


On 2014-06-03 12:28 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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>> Am 03/giu/2014 um 20:23 schrieb Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
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>> I doubt that; I think people are adding place=* to boundary relations
> I have also noticed this in various occasions, while this is mostly/often "wrong" for whole settlements (they tend to have bigger administrative areas around them than the actually developed space, unless they are in very dense contexts and the end of one is the beginning of the next), it is often the right thing to do for settlement parts like quarters.
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> Didn't dig deeper into the issue about actual percentages of the different styles, but I know from discussions on the lists that there are at least a few examples of place areas on their own (this is a field where many mappers will delete your tag on an area because they'll say that it's duplicating data, and as the node gets rendered but the area not it is clear to them that the area must go).

place tags on areas are, putting it kindly, a complete mess right now.

I ran into this with 
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/546. It's 
absolutely horrible in the US where imports have put place=city on every 
incorporated/charted area as well as every CDP, and it frequently gets 
added to admin boundaries in non-dense contexts where the administrative 
boundary is not coincident with the place.





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