[OSM-talk] suburb boundaries

[Franc Carter]

Hmm, the same direction issues are going to crop up when there are
boundaries
of multiple suburbs that share boundaries - is this just something we need
to put
up with at the moment ?

cheers

On 9/3/07, Andrew Loughhead <andrew at incanberra.com.au> wrote:
>
> Franc Carter wrote:
> >
> > I have access to some suburb boundaries that I plan to add to OSM,
> > several of the boundaries are defined by roads, rivers, railways etc.
> >
> > My original plan was to use the existing segments of these features
> > as part of the boundaries so, as they are tweaked there is a higher
> > chance of things staying put.
> >
> > However, I noticed that JOSM's validator now had an option flags such
> > re-used segments - is doing this sort of thing deprected ?
>
> I tried re-using segments from roads as parts of area ways for some
> parks. Apart from the validator, you also have the difficulty that
> segments forming area ways must all point the same direction, and at
> some point that will probably be impossible.
>
> I gave up and just drew my areas with separate segments. If the rule
> about segments pointing the same direction were relaxed, I think
> re-using segments like this would make lots of sense. Currently, though,
> I want a consistent method, and it seems that segment re-use can't be
> consistent.
>
> Andrew.
>
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Franc
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