[Talk-ca] Merging huge wooded areas?

[Tyler Gunn]

Okay, so how is everyone handling huge wooded areas?  
Take the massive green blob here for an example:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.599&lon=-101.054&zoom=10&layers=M

It literally spans over an entire NTS tile (062N*).  I tried (as much as
possible) to ensure all outer/inner members of the wooded area are part of
a single relation, but in retrospect that wasn't the right approach as you
can still see the lines between the NTS sub-tiles.

So I'm thinking in this situation what I really need to do (once the
entire extent of this wooded area has been imported) is download the entire
area accompanied by the woods, and use the JOIN command in JOSM to merge
the smaller wooded areas into one big massive one.  The end result would be
one HUGE way that traces the entire outside of the wooded area.  All of the
inside "divisions" between the tiles would be eliminated, and the end
result would be a huge outer way and lots of inner ways.  I could then just
split up the huge outer way as necessary to make sure no one part of the
way is longer than 2000 nodes.

Does this sound reasonable?  Or am I over-complicating it?

Thanks!
Tyler

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Tyler Gunn
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