[OSM-newbies] Ungluing in Potlatch

[Mike Harris]

... And when there is a hedge or fence alongside the road with a stile or
gate through the hedge giving access to the footpath? The stile is neither
in the road, or at the footpath / road junction node, nor in the field
adjacent to the road ... I don't think it is such a clear-cut situation as
you (rather vigorously IMHO (;>) imply ... 

Mike Harris
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Bennett [mailto:stevagewp at gmail.com] 
> Sent: 12 January 2010 04:23
> To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Ungluing in Potlatch
> 
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > People who don't like landuse and roads to overlap usually 
> use two arguments:
> > 1) Trees/grass/etc. don't grow on half of the road.
> 
> IMHVO, this is a nonsense argument (not blaming you). A way 
> representing a road represents, at this micro level, an area 
> the width of the road. So, when a footpath and a road 
> connect, this doesn't mean that the middle of the footpath 
> and the middle of the road connect: it means the *edge* of 
> the footpath and the *edge* of the road connect.
> By the same reasoning, a landuse area sharing a way with a 
> road means that the *edge* of the road connects with the edge 
> of the landuse area.
> 
> It's particularly appropriate when the boundary of an area is 
> defined by the road or river in question - we're capturing 
> the actual definition of the boundary, rather than another 
> approximation of it.
> 
> > 2) It is difficult to edit afterwards.
> 
> Oh? How so?
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
>