[Talk-us] Cleaning up California FMMP "residential"

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

On 15/giu/2013, at 11:13, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

> Some of the multipolygons I've been cleaning up have been particularly hard 
> to edit as they cover multiple separate areas. I'd hate to handle them in 
> P2 or iD, fetching a small area from the API returns these giant ways and 
> getting the full MP is troublesome in JOSM which deals better with areas 
> larger than the API can comfortably deal with.


IMHO to keep osm easily modifiable and maintainable it is the best to keep complexity as low as possible and to map landuse as atomic as possible. Don't make multipolygons for landuse, or only to share common borders, but don't cut holes or make them overlap.
For a detailed mapping I wouldn't include public streets in the landuse, if this seems too much work start with splitting the polygons on bigger streets like primaries etc.

cheers,
Martin