On 11/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Etienne</b> <<a href="mailto:80n80n@gmail.com">80n80n@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I agree that abutters is a poor implementation and was only invented at the time because we had no mechanism to describe or reder areas.<br><div><div><br>If we dump the rendering of abutters many existing maps are going to lose some detail next time they are rendered. Is this acceptable?
<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>It'll have to happen eventually, but people may get upset if it happens without warning. How about marking it as deprecated on the wiki <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_features#Abutters">
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_features#Abutters</a> straight away, then making it an easily-turned-back-on option in osmarender a couple of months later, then ignoring abutters completely thereafter? Or is OSM still small enough that things can be changed more quickly?
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