[josm-dev] self-intersecting ways

[Alan Mintz]

At 2010-03-03 14:31, Richard Welty wrote:
 >On 3/3/10 4:29 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
 >> Alan Mintz wrote:
 >>
 >>> A similar problem exists with some landuse=* ways that
 >>> people have glued to roads.
 >>>
 >> I'd call that a bit of an error:  Clearly that landuse doesn't
 >> continue all the way out to the street centerline.
 >>
 >but for people using josm w/the validator who are not aware of the issue,
 >they are told that the duplicate nodes are an error, and there's a
 >convenient
 >fix button right there.

Sounds like the validator should take into account the type of features in 
this case, right? I'm all for joining nodes of like feature types (like 
landuse to landuse), but it shouldn't tell you (let you?) join landuse to 
highway.

 From a technical standpoint, the land parcels do indeed usually extend out 
to the centerline of the roadway, but an easement is granted to the 
city/county/state for the road, utilities, etc., and the area within the 
easement may not be built upon by the landowner. IMO, that should exclude 
the area within the easement from the landuse boundary.
--
Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>