[Talk-nz] Format of land use areas. Trace around all roads or just the main drags?

[Eliot Blennerhassett]

On 1/08/21 9:34 pm, Andrew Douglas-Clifford wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> I've seen the application vary quite a bit. As you say, sometimes it will just be large areas including roads inside them, which is fine assuming there aren't any different land uses inside the area, it saves plenty of time and still feels correct to me. 

yes, for residential areas, with what we'd call "residential roads", I'm quite happy with the whole area being covered with residential
land use.  If somebody wants to come in and do all the crinkly edges, they are welcome to...

> If it's a wider than usual gap between areas, perhaps it merits separated areas though.
> 
> In the situations where it does border features like roads and parks etc. for existing ones, I tend to tidy it up for aesthetic purposes so that it goes along the approximate fence line of the property and excludes the kerb, as the footpath and kerb area aren't really part of the 'residential' area. When rendered in the OSM tiles it makes more sense that way as it is parallel to the road feature.