[OSM-talk] proposal: relation type=way_affected ("on the beginning of the street")

[Rory McCann]

On 06/11/08 08:27, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Hallo.
> 
> "Just on the beginning of the private way" is one of the common places
> for barriers. Its mapping makes an apparent clash between reality and
> mapping schematic - there is no way to mark this fact exactly.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.071094&lon=14.425607&zoom=18&layers=B000FFF
> 
> You cannot draw the barrier just on the cross node - the main street has
> no gate, it's only on the private way. Drawing it on an additional node
> gives a bad assumption, that one should search a way with a gate say
> 10-20 meters from the cross. In fact one should search a gate just next
> to the street, with no part of the private way visible. Some renderers
> even render the barrier incorrectly inside the main street line.

I know what sort of feature you're talking about. But I would have
thought that the barrier (or whatever) would be ever so slightly on the
private way (eg 10cm in). Would it not make more sense to have a node
veeeeeery close to the start of the private way?

Rory

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