[OSM-newbies] Adjacent areas

[Renaud MICHEL]

On mardi 23 août 2011 at 07:09, Steve Bennett wrote :
> IMHO, both are ok. Both have advantages. Also IMHO some of the
> reasoning against reusing nodes is flawed: sharing a node doesn't mean
> the prison goes all the way to the middle of the road (any more than a
> way indicates a road has zero width).

No, if you don't draw the road itself as an area you'll end up with absurd 
situations.

For example, if you have buildings on both side of the road and the mapper 
decide to share the road nodes for both, then your building ends up having a 
common wall where the road is supposed to be!

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Renaud Michel