[OSM-newbies] Defining Areas

Cartinus cartinus at xs4all.nl
Wed Mar 12 03:14:18 GMT 2008


AFAIK There is only one way (at least in JOSM): Click on each one of them one 
by one while you are drawing the new border. The amount of effort is just the 
same for reusing old nodes and creating new ones. The benefit is not in the 
amount of work, but in the amount of data in the database.

Cartinus

On Wednesday 12 March 2008 03:54:15 James Ewen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:27 PM, James Ewen <jewen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Still trying to figure out how to share nodes along a common border...
>
> James
> VE6SRV
>
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