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Hello, I'm new to openstreetmap. I'm starting to map in my town which is in a rural area with lots of unmapped area. Its comprised of forest broken up with scattered houses and farmland. I have a few questions:
I will likely ask around in sweden forum as well to see how others are doing things. It seems like there is a few different places to ask questions: IRC, help, forum, mailing list. Thanks for help seahik
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Hi sea hik, avoid large areas or multipolygons, there have been some questions about them read these lines. Besides there’s a limit of 2000 on the amount of nodes used in a way (string or multipolygon). https://help.openstreetmap.org/search/?csrfmiddlewaretoken=jVfxwqdgjonh8Cj1qHBy7W8vdAXDXUXw&q=multipolygon&t=question I would not make the make a forest multi larger than necessary and use every path or track to make another parcel just as nevw stated. Avoid connecting forest borders to the way next to it, leave some space in between. It ain't forest but the border lines are separated just to let the water in. The first imports shared the connecting borders you will have to split them manually. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/52.48683/4.82834 That is incredible detail on your linked map. When I started mapping near me, I was re-using highway nodes for landuse. But I've since gone in a manually changed them all to be separate. It almost seems like landuse should be a separate layer in osm from highways. I still struggle with decision on whether to make all my landuse polygons share borders with each other. It seems strange to leave small gaps of undesignated landuse, like for example when landuse crosses a road.
(10 Oct '14, 15:47)
sea hik
I do not leave gaps. What is the reality ? E.g. Does the forest ends where the farmland begins ? If so, why would you leave a gap ? It's different when they are separated by a road
(10 Oct '14, 20:31)
escada
Hi remember how roads were created, in between 2 parcels. Farmers / owners did not want to lose fertile soil to a way. Neither is a road ploughed, except a right of way. Remember OSM is schematic. The roadside or shoulder could be used for harvesting grass by another farmer. Landuse borders join the ditch all together, sometimes even with a fence in the middle. Forest parcels could join borders, separate them if necessary ! Make up your mind, look in the neighborhood / forum, have fun and keep mapping.
(10 Oct '14, 21:00)
Hendrikklaas
escada - its landuse around roads that I meant. I've seen people leave a gap near the road. But I've decided to attach the landuse edge to the landuse edge that starts on otherside of road. In otherwords not leaving a gap. Not sure if thats best way or not. I'll keep checking in to see how others are doing it near me.
(10 Oct '14, 21:42)
sea hik
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Along with Hendrick I also want to encourage you to keep those multipolygons small as they will be much easier to manage later. There are a number of wood multipolygons I work with here in northern Thailand, one of which is nearing 700 individual pieces. Every time I work on one of these monsters I must download the entire thing so as to be sure any changes I make are being done correctly. This is a good time to take a coffee break. Splitting a large multipolygon into smaller, more user-friendly pieces later is quite a chore.
(11 Oct '14, 00:51)
AlaskaDave
As for shared boundaries, it seems I am always looking for some sort of natural boundary where big multipolygons can be split so I recommend not sharing. Roads and rivers are places where landuse or forest multipolygons are naturally divided and the OSM should reflect that. Separating those boundaries later, should that become necessary, is another big chore that can be avoided by taking a little extra time initially. By the way, the Make Parallel Copies of Ways add on in JOSM is an easy way to create those separate boundaries. I use it all the time for boundaries and riverbanks. Cheers
(11 Oct '14, 00:51)
AlaskaDave
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As for your second point, JOSM has filters Create one with just highway=* (or even just highway, can't test it right now)
as for your third point, where do you want to make it visible ? In JOSM ? Then you can use MapCSS
Escada - Thank you for the filter. Seems to work great. Would you by chance know if the filter disables any underlying snapping behaviour to the hidden elements. I would like to hide the highways and avoid snapping to them when drawing landuse polygons.
For my third question, I was referring to how things appear on the Standard layer on OSM.
I think it avoids snapping, to avoid snapping you can also use CTRL-click.
You cannot change the appearance of the standard layer, without modifying the underlying style file. You can always ask the maintainers whether they want to do this. The place to do that is github
For your 1st point, I suggest that you don't make them too big, cumbersome and complex otherwise a new mapper will not be able to confidently edit anything in the area lest he breaks something. KISS is in general a good principle to apply.
Nevw - that makes sense, thanks. By the way, would you happen to know if mapping landuse is in general a lower priority in osm?
On the "where to contact" question - different country and language communities tend to use different mechanisms (mailing lists, the forum, IRC, Facebook Groups and more). With IRC though, you may need to hang around for a 10 minutes or so to get an answer.
Individual mappers decide their own priorities and preferences. I find land use is often difficult to ascertain - managed forest or wood or wildlife reserve? Boundaries are also difficult to define, even with satellite imagery or looking over an area from the boundary. Whereas other elements like roads and buildings are more easily checked during a gps survey in person.
re OSM's priorities: There is no one priority for OSM--some people map everything in an area, while others focus on one specific kind of feature. I have definitely seen people focus on landuse--I think it esp appeals to people who loved SimCity :) Personally, after the transportation network, I think POIs and addresses are the info we could add which would create more value for people than landuse. But I add plenty of obscure things, too! Scratch your itch.