[OSM-newbies] Adjacent areas

[Andre Engels]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Donald Campbell II <donaciano2000 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I'm wondering what the proper way to create an adjacent area is.  For
> example here<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=6.805586&lon=-58.161404&zoom=18&layers=M>there's a prison that takes up a full city block.  Does one draw a square
> using the same 4 existing nodes from the intersections around it?  Or should
> one zoom in and put 4 new nodes close to the existing ones?
>

New nodes are preferable. The roads are lines in DP, but have a width in
reality. Thus, the prison doesn´t really start where the line is, which is
the center of the road, but on the side of it. Even if you choose to portray
it as such (for example, because you don't want the part between the prison
and the road to be specified as something else than prison, because it's not
really residential area, and it's strange to have a hole in the residential
area here and not for other roads), it is still better to use separate
points, so that the next person, if they choose to make a more precise
mapping of the prison walls, can move the points rather than having to
create new ones.

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
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