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Raphaël Jacquot wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Etienne wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Are loops and branches in ways a good thing or a bad thing? I can
imagine that route planning applications might find them problematic,
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I believe we shouldn't have loops of any sort.
routing algorithms like to have straight simple topologies. loops add a
huge level of complexity that I don't think is necessary
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It seems that roads (ways, that is) containing loops (like roundabouts)
would complicate
things. One option would then be to turn the loops (roundabouts)
themselves into ways, separate from the roads which they connect. This
would lead to instructions like "drive road A to the X roundabout (x
km), take road A to road B (y km)..." The downside is that our ways are
actually split into several parts -- which I guess we could call
segments... :-) <br>
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But what if roundabouts were defined (or treated by the routing
algorithm) as points, albeit of a special kind? Would this make sense?
(If they were regular points, displaying the data would mean
visualising the data structure rather than describing actual features
of the physical road network. Surely, this would not make sense, as
we'd need separate datasets for rendering and routing.) <br>
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/ TM<br>
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