[OSM-newbies] Opinions on my Work

[Mike Harris]

I only half agree ... where roads and areas are concerned there are cases
where you may be better off NOT sharing the edge of the area with the line
of the road as a single line. There has been quite extensive discussion on
this which I will not repeat here ... simply to say that it is perhaps worth
taking each shared (or non-shared) boundary on its own merits.

Mike Harris
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Ewen [mailto:ve6srv at gmail.com] 
> Sent: 23 November 2009 05:57
> To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Opinions on my Work
> 
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
> > The layer tag is not for painting in the renderer. The 
> layer tag is to 
> > tell us things are physically above/below each other.
> 
> Hmm, where I live, the buildings are on top of the ground, 
> and so is the parking lot. Okay, I'm making some 
> suppositions, as I have not lifted the building or parking 
> lot to see if there actually is ground under them. Maybe it's 
> like trying to determine if the light stays on in the fridge.
> 
> Seriously, you have got to be joking. There is no way in the 
> world that I am going to make millions of areas to describe 
> each little bit of a residential area that sits between each 
> road, building, etc...
> every time you want to add another element to the map, you'll 
> have to go back and cut a hole in the existing area in order 
> to place the new element. I think cutting holes in area 
> elements is more of a mistake than layering. The local school 
> sits in an area designated as a park, inside an area 
> designated as residential, inside an area designated as 
> Sherwood Park, inside an area designated as Strathcona 
> County, inside an area designated as the Province of Alberta, 
> inside an area designated as Canada. Yes, some of these are 
> defined by border tags, and aren't actual area polygons.
> 
> I create an area that encompasses all of a residential 
> neighborhood, and let the roads get rendered over top of the 
> area. I also define parks, lakes, buildings, pitches, 
> playgrounds, etc and let them all fall on top of the residential area.
> 
> If I can't layer elements then I guess I'm hanging up my OSM 
> boots, I don't have the time and energy to try and juggle all 
> that snipping/cutting/pasting...
> 
> James
> VE6SRV
> 
> 
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