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

[Charlotte Wolter]

I agree. Is there a way to get that into the wiki?

At 08:21 AM 4/16/2012, you wrote:
>At 2012-04-15 10:53, Charlotte Wolter wrote:
>>         In the process of remapping work by "blars," I've come 
>> across a way to draw land use that is new to me. He draws the 
>> land-use areas out to the middle of the streets. For example, if 
>> he is specifying a city block as "residential," he draws the 
>> outline down the middle of the surrounding streets, and all the 
>> points in the outline intersect with the points that create the street.
>>         Is this the way land sue should be done?
>
>IMO, no. It's particularly difficult when such a user joins the 
>landuse ways to the road ways, presenting all sorts of opportunities 
>for newbies to do "the wrong thing" when editing anything in the 
>area. Even attentive editors have to go through all sorts of 
>difficulties when dealing with splitting ways for turn restrictions, etc.
>
>I map landuse out to what is likely to be the part of the land that 
>the owner can actually build (or landscape) upon - generally the 
>inner (i.e. away from the street) border of the sidewalk. Also, I 
>rarely map individual parcels, choosing instead of map the outline 
>of an entire tract. In this case, the landuse _will_ cover the roads 
>that are interior to the tract or provide access to it. See 
>http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.53391&lon=-117.34904&zoom=16 .
>
>
>--
>Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>
>
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