[OSM-talk] Overlapping Ways - Embrace or Avoid?

[Steve Hill]

Lester Caine wrote:

> But it is an area that needs to be fine tuned in the guides!
> In reality at smaller scales they are never in the same place

This depends what you are mapping.  For example, I have used shared 
nodes on beaches - below the high water mark I have mapped a beach with 
a water=tidal tag, above the high water mark I have mapped a nontidal 
beach.  Where the tidal and nontidal beaches join, they share nodes - 
this reflects reality since there really is no gap between tidal and 
nontidal bits of beach.  Similarly, where beaches change from sand to 
rock, there is no gap and so the nodes should be shared.

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