[Talk-us] Why?

[Stellan Lagerström]

A related problem with Escondido is that the landuse areas boundaries 
are attached to road centerlines. This vastly increases the editing 
effort needed to improve on them later.

/Stellan

On 2015-03-05 13:30, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
> 2015-03-05 1:14 GMT+01:00 stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com 
> <mailto:steveaOSM at softworkers.com>>:
>
>     What I understand Martin Koppenhoefer to say are essentially the
>     same things, but I'm not sure if he understands (or agrees) with
>     Escondido having large areas marked as landuse=residential.  These
>     are not simply zoned residential (they are), they ARE
>     (on-the-ground verifiable) residential.  So it is OK for them to
>     be tagged as they are. 
>
>
>
> Yes, I'm saying the same things. In particular, if you ask me about 
> these huge landuse polygons in Escondido, I don't particularily like 
> them. I like detailed mapping, and I believe as soon as someone starts 
> to map the details he'll have to split these polygons into smaller 
> ones in order to keep maintainability. I don't suggest to make them 
> multipolygons and to exclude stuff, this would become a nightmare very 
> soon.
>
> I would exclude (at least) the main arterial roads from the 
> residential landuse and also stuff like this:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/65592897
>
> And when you did this, you'd already have it all split into much 
> smaller landuse areas.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
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