[OSM-newbies] Boundaries and Roads

[Pieren]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Jason Cunningham
<jamicuosm at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Areas attached to roads are one of my pet hates in OSM, in large part due to
> the difficulties in editing things later on.

Editing things later when not attached is also difficult, e.g. if you
have to adjust misaligned imagery sources.

> I agree with John's statement that highways mark the centreline of the road,
> and as far as I'm concerned giving the edge of the field as the centre of
> the road is misleading.

Not less misleading than traffic_signals or pedestrian crossing on
junction nodes or lanes/width/surface values changing on short
distance and therefore ignored, etc. We do approximate and simplify
with vector mapping. And we have to accept the different levels of
simplication depending on the contributors.

Pieren