[OSM-newbies] newbies Digest, Vol 31, Issue 10

[Russ Phillips]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Aspen Swartz <aspendel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I still don't understand this issue.  For a small playground, drawing
> another way in order to tag the area as a playground isn't so bad, but
> for a larger thing, it seems quite tedious to re-draw each meaning of
> the way- as well as inaccurate.  If the fence is irregular, and has
> been mapped carefully, it seems like it would be more accurate and
> easier to somehow copy the way that is the fence, add the last side,
> and tag it as the playground boundary.  Is there a way to duplicate
> ways and re-tag them with a different attribute?
>
> (I am afraid the terms I'm using aren't quite correct... I hope my
> meaning has come across).

I've not used relations much, partly because I don't really understand
them. I'm trying to improve my understanding of them, and use them
where appropriate, which is one reason why I looked at the possibility
of using one here.

The fence was mapped carefully, and in the end I created a new way,
re-using the nodes that made up the fence, so the playground border
exactly follows the fence for that part where there is a fence. One
disadvantage of doing it this way is that where there is fence, there
are two ways exactly on top of each other, and it could make it
difficult to select the one you want when editing in future. I suppose
that's an issue for the editors to deal with, though.

Russ