[Talk-us] Odd road / odd structure

Steve Friedl steve at unixwiz.net
Mon May 23 16:41:17 UTC 2016


Hi all,

 

I have two things that I just don't quite know how to map.  Sorry that I
have to provide Google Maps views to demonstrate.

 

1)      How does one represent a named street which is really a greenbelt:
never been drivable, was assigned a name just to allow attaching a street
name to the houses on either side.

 

Example: In Irvine California there's a residential area shown here:

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7298257,-117.7572128,19z

 

I'm referring to Paisley Place, which is shown as a named alley connecting
Garden Gate Lane and Winslow Lane.

 

After surveying the area and seeing that the City of Irvine GIS showed
Paisley as that greenbelt, I reported it as an error (as I've done dozens of
times for other things), but the very helpful GIS manager reported that this
is correct (but certainly odd), and the two street-like things on either
side of it are just unnamed alleys.

 

How do I represent this in OSM?  It's not a street that doesn't allow
access, it's not really even a street!

 

2)      How do I represent a parking-lot-sized area that's intended to
collect rainwater that fills a cistern?

 

In the Santa Ana Mountains in Southern California, the satellite views show
something that looks exactly like a helipad:

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7875181,-117.5805174,419m/data=!3m1!1e3

 

But it's not. That whole huge surface - paved in asphalt - is tilted
slightly so that rainwater water will collect and fill the two cisterns to
the left (zooming in you can barely see the pipe from the big pad to the
cisterns.

 

I cannot find anything that's even close to describing what this is, but
it's so prominent on the maps (and interesting to visit) that I seems like
it should be there even if to make note that it's not a helipad.

 

Thanks,

 

Steve - who hopes the links above work.

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