[OSM-newbies] Apartment Complex

[Randy]

Alan Mintz wrote:

>At 2009-11-18 03:26, you wrote:
>>>>I have a number of apartment complexes to map...
>>>
>>>When I started mapping, I asked a similar question. Based on the 
>>>responses
>>>I got and other features, I use a site relation. Example:
>>>http://osm.org/go/TaBoJz7Oq-
>>
>>   Great example.   I have a question that the wiki doesn't clarify:
>>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Site .   I believe 
>>it
>>would be best to have the relation site members as inside a polygon (or
>>multipolygon relation), and that would enclose all site-related members.
>
>They are - see the closed way tagged landuse=residential, which is in the
>relation as role=boundary.
>
>
>>That way as new features are mapped inside the polygon, there is no need 
>>to
>>remember to add them to the relation.
>
>This is something that would have to be done as a new feature in the
>editors - warn the user that they've added a feature within a closed way
>that is in a relation as role=boundary, which relation should ordinarily
>include all things within its boundary (like site and campus), and ask if
>they want to add the new feature to the relation.

Been out of town a few days. Thanks. That was helpful information.

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Randy