[OSM-newbies] How to draw land-use areas

[John F. Eldredge]

Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Reusing the nodes of the ways seems like the correct way to define
> landuse
> when the landuse is different on both sides of the street. If not done
> that
> way, there are ugly with stripes/triangles between the roads and the
> landuse when plotting the map at high zoom scale.
> 
> Landuse is drawn first, the road network is drawn over it. So when the
> landuse is the same on both sides of the road, there is no need to
> draw
> more than one landuse. The road simply goes over it. No problem.
> 
> Suppose I'm drawing a (large) forest. Then I draw landuse around the
> treeline and roads/tracks/footways across the forest. No need to draw
> many
> small forests. The same goes for residential/commercial or industrial
> landuse.
> 
> Just my 2 cents,
> 
> Polyglot
> 

If you have a divided street with a center median, would each landuse extend to the center of that median?

For certain circumstances, where the right-of-way is quite broad (for example, at motorway interchanges), it would make sense to record the right-of-way as an area, with its own landuse tag.  The proposed landuse=highway would be the logical value to use.  I can think of a couple of examples here in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, where an interchange is about a kilometer across.

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