[OSM-newbies] Motel names not showing up on OSM?

Tom Taylor tom.taylor.stds at gmail.com
Mon Oct 14 00:10:25 UTC 2013


Having gone through an exercise of validation and re-editing for the 
Ottawa area in general, I took away the lesson that a little gap is well 
worthwhile in terms of the subsequent pain it avoids. After all, it's 
not as if our tools on the ground can actually detect such a discrepancy.

Tom Taylor

On 13/10/2013 4:35 PM, Craig Wallace wrote:
> On 2013-10-13 20:54, Charlotte Wolter wrote:
>> Sebastian,
>>
>>           You should follow Clifford's advice. It is a pain to fix
>> things that are glued together and should not be.
>>           A parking lot is ADJACENT to a hotel, but it is not part of
>> the hotel. Also, if one wants to make change to either, they will
>> have to be unglued. This is quite difficult to do, when, for example,
>> one wants to change a way that has been glued to an adjacent field.
>
> This is wrong. If two areas are physically adjacent to each other, with
> nothing in between, then they should be mapped as such. ie sharing nodes
> (or as multipolygon relations, with a shared way).
> Don't leave a gap on the map if there isn't actually a gap 'on the ground'.
>
> It might make it a bit trickier to edit, but that's more about knowing
> how to use the editor. eg in JOSM middle click to select the other way.
> And it makes some editing easier - eg if you adjust the position or
> improve the accuracy of the building, its correct that it will also move
> the parking.
>
> Note linear ways sharing nodes with areas is a separate issue (eg roads
> sharing nodes with fields), I think that should be avoided where possible.
>
> Craig
>
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