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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>27 Feb 2020, 09:55 by colin.smale@xs4all.nl:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><p><span style="font-family: monospace;">If it was semantically important, we should be scanning for and flagging up waterways with out-of-order ways.</span><span style="font-family: monospace;">The fact that we are not, shows that the ordering of the ways is not essential for a correct geometrical interpretation....QED</span><br></p></blockquote><div>This proof assumes that OSM validators<br></div><div>are completed and detecting all possible<br></div><div>semantic issues.<br></div><div><br></div><div>This is not true, just look at <br></div><div>JOSM/osmose/iD issue tracker, every<br></div><div>one has plenty of open issues suggesting<br></div><div>new validator checks.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace" class=""> it is possible that re-ordering the members of one relation, causes the members of another relation to become out-of-order.<br></div></blockquote><div>Why reordering members in one relation would<br></div><div>reorder members of other relation?</div> </body>
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