[josm-dev] self-intersecting ways

[Alan Mintz]

At 2010-03-04 09:10, Richard Welty wrote:
>On 3/4/10 11:54 AM, Alan Mintz wrote:
>
>>    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.
>>
>>
>and from a practical point of view, this is how they are in the database 
>at the present time; nodes
>for landuse/areas are at the same locations as nodes in highways.

Some imported ones, yes. I doubt human-drawn ones are (I certainly don't do 
it).

It would be nice if someone would create a tool that lets you select two 
nodes, specify a direction and distance, and have it dup and move them, as 
well as the specified way that connects them. It should also be possible to 
have it do the same thing with an entire polygon and/or, in the case where 
it is rectangular, specify separate easement distances for all 4 sides 
(this would be the most common usage). This would greatly speed up fixing 
of these types of issues when they are encountered by the more experienced 
of us.


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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>