[OSM-newbies] Defining Areas

[James Ewen]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Thomas Wood
<grand.edgemaster at gmail.com> wrote:


>  There are currently two commonly used border drawing methods:
>  1) Draw a complete closed polygon around the area, sharing nodes where
>  they meet other borders.

Okay, that looks like what I want to do... how do you share nodes? I
see an example where Nonsuch Park abuts Cheam Park. Clicking on a way
defining the park highlights the whole border of that park, including
the shared border.

>  2) Make a border up of separate ways so one way defines one border
>  between two places, using a relation to group the pieces of a region's
>  border together.

I see an example of that for the district border just north of A24...
Are you able to define an area using this method? Do the district
names ever show up on the map at a specific zoom level?

>  I may as well give an example as well.
>  http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.3598&lon=-0.2241&zoom=15&layers=0BFT

Small world... my mother was born in Leatherhead back in 1922... She
might even recognize some of the area if I were to show it to her!

James
VE6SRV