[OSM-newbies] Fence in middle of street

[Mike Harris]

Oh dear - I must have been having a senior moment! Yes - I can now see the
logic of a perimeter fence (I had forgotten that a closed way would be an
area) - and, yes - it is only my laziness that led me to forget that I could
manually add barrier=fence to a node (although it would be nice if that
option was included in the preset ... and if it rendered - only ways and
areas render with barrier=fence).

I will now go and sit on the naughty step ... (;>)

Mike Harris
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave F. [mailto:davefox at madasafish.com] 
> Sent: 04 February 2010 13:47
> To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Fence in middle of street
> 
> Mike Harris wrote:
> > I agree that it would be useful to extend the barrier=fence tag to 
> > allow its use on nodes (cf. JOSM presets where this is 
> limited to ways
> 
> I don't use JOSM, but can't you still add a fence as a node 
> even though it's not a preset?
> 
> >  and, for some
> > unknown reason, areas (when would an area be a fence?).
> Doesn't it mean as a barrier at the perimeter to that area?
> ie I map cemeteries as polygon areas. These are quite often 
> bounded fully by a wall. Instead of drawing an extra linear 
> way on the nodes of the perimeter of that area I just added a 
> second wall tag:
> 
> landuse=cemetery
> barrier=wall.
> 
> @Alan Mintz
> I hope you're keeping up & paying attention. We'll be asking 
> questions later :-)
> 
> Cheers
> Dave F.
> 
> 
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