[OSM-newbies] Filling in an area

[Thomas Wood]

2009/6/3 Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org>:
> 2009/6/3  <exnpo-openstreetmap at yahoo.co.uk>:
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> I have a football field I'm trying to map.
>>
>> The perimeter is defined by a stream, a hedge boundary and a road. My
>> efforts so far have made all ways streams, or hedges or roads - something
>> wrong there!
>>
>> Other than separately drawing around the inside of this enclosed shape and
>> naming that a field, what's the proper way of doing it please?
>
> That is the "proper way" you could use the same nodes but you need to have.
>
> 1. A Way for the Road,
> 2. A Way For the Stream
> 3. A Way For the Hedge
> 4. A Way for the Field
> 5. A Node for any Gates into field (that is through the hedge)
> 6. A Node for the football posts (if you like)
>
> Any of the Nodes that make up the ways can be shared by a number of
> different ways.
>
> Of course I might be wrong.
>
> Peter Childs

This is right, or you may wish to draw a rectangle within the
boundary, it depends on your own personal style of mapping.


>>
>> Thanks, Molescott.
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Regards,
Thomas Wood
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