[Talk-ca] Discussion: zones boisées

[Harald Kliems]

On Fri Nov 21 2014 at 8:05:08 AM Adam Martin <s.adam.martin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It all depends on what you think the line that makes up the road itself on
> the map represents. If it represents a type of land use tag, then the first
> case makes sense as the land is residential in general, except for any area
> marked with a route as that route would mark the land as used for a road
> within the residential area. If roads do not tag the ground beneath it,
> then we need to specifically set what the ground underneath is to be tagged
> as, requiring multiple smaller polygons to map.
>
I've seen this question pop up again and again, especially in countries
with a lot of small parcels of different land usage. For example, In
Germany it's very common to have several different land uses along one
road. So do we attach them via node to the way of the road or do they stop
x meters from the centerline of the road? What if you have trees
overhanging a road? How wide and developed has a trail have to be for it to
stop being part of a forest and become its own land use? How do you deal
with the editing nightmare of many different land uses glued to a road?

>From what I've seen, there are good reasons for both perspectives and it is
highly unlikely that there will be consensus (or even a clear majority) for
either view in the community.

 Harald.
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