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

[Jo]

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2012/4/17 Charlotte Wolter <techlady at techlady.com>

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> I agree. Is there a way to get that into the wiki?
>
>
> At 08:21 AM 4/16/2012, you wrote:
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> At 2012-04-15 10:53, Charlotte Wolter wrote:
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>         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 .
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>
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