I'm curious, what would be the best way to tag the boundaries of individual properties? Or SHOULD I even attempt this? The Cadestral data for Manitoba is available from the Manitoba Lands Initiative under a free for use license, so I was thinking of incorporating this data.
I've converted a bit of the data, opting to merge all the lots into larger blocks to indicate the landuse of residential, park, etc. It's kinda nice because it also gives you a guide for aligning the roads; they should typically be in between the landuse areas. I think it looks pretty decent with the houses I added in from Yahoo: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.775024&lon=-97.170408&zoom=18&layers=M However, in areas where there is no satellite imagery available to put in the houses, I feel that NOT identifying the boundaries of each lot really gives up on what could be valuable information; knowing the boundaries of each lot would be a great navigational aid. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.78962&lon=-97.164207&zoom=18&layers=M I tried just importing the data straight in where each lot was it's own multipolygon (lots of shared boundaries) with landuse=residential. However when rendered in Mapnik and osmarenderer, it just came out as a solid colored area with no indication where the lots are. Perhaps I would need to mark the ways some how? Just trying to think how to get the data to show up. If it doesn't show up then my current approach of just marking the landuse using this data is sufficient. Opinions? Tyler -- -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
