[Tagging] Landuse border alignment

[Jonas Minnberg]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Jonas Minnberg <sasq64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm kind of considering if this is right or not - if a road is the divider
>> between two landuses, is it still best to unglue it from the landuse(s) and
>> move it into one or the other?
>>
>>
> It's best to unglue but it's also not wrong to glue the landuse. Some will
> say it's inaccurate, but hey, drawing a road with a polyline is also
> inaccurate.
> In some cases, ungluing can be worst : imagine two parallel streets and one
> pedestrian square in between. If you unglue the square, you need polylines
> to represent the roads connection (for e.g. pedestrian routing). These lines
> are inacurate because they can be drawn at some intervals only where
> physically the connection is everywhere along the square. If you glue the
> pedestrian square, your problem is easily solved and closer to the reality.


But then we are not talking about landuse, we are actually talking about a
way, albeit a very wide one - and ways should be connected to each other.
(And now we are back to the topic if ways should be areas... but thats
another discussion :).
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