[talk-au] Suburb boundaries

[Darrin Smith]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:27:53 +1030
Jack Burton <jack at saosce.com.au> wrote:

> In JOSM, it's fairly simple to see all stacked ways (using the middle
> mouse button, with control to hold/select) - then (as long as the ways
> have been tagged) it's very easy to pick the one you want to work
> with. Not sure whether it's that straightforward in the other editors
> or not. Also straightforward when working with raw OSM data (again,
> particularly if the ways have been tagged).

That method has never worked for me, I ctrl-hold and attempt to select
and the menu closes. 

> With the single area approach, you only ever have to worry about one
> way per suburb, but you often have to deal with a few stacked ways.
> Conversely, with the other two approaches, you only have one way in
> any given place on the map, but you often have a whole swag of
> boundary ways per suburb. So I guess it's really a case of 6 of one,
> half a dozen of the other...

Yeah, this methodology just makes more sense to me personally, I guess
it's just one of those personal preference things ;)

> Sounds resonable enough (presumably tagged with source=extrapolation
> or similar). At least that way, suburb boundaries can be completed.

Erm, *cough*, yeah, if I'd remembered to put any source tag at all I
would put that ;)

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