Forgot to reply-all.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Karl Newman</b> <<a href="mailto:siliconfiend@gmail.com">siliconfiend@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:33 PM<br>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Local map making - truncating ways on boundary?<br>To: Dirk-Lüder Kreie <<a href="mailto:osm-list@deelkar.net">osm-list@deelkar.net</a>><br><br><br><div class="Ih2E3d">
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Dirk-Lüder Kreie <<a href="mailto:osm-list@deelkar.net" target="_blank">osm-list@deelkar.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Karl Newman schrieb:</div><div><div></div><div><br><div class="Ih2E3d">| If OSM had a polygon type, or if every closed way was guaranteed to have a<br>
| "area=yes" tag, then we could deal with tiling in a generic way, but since<br>
| it doesn't (who knows why... I believe all professional GIS systems<br>
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There are closed ways that are not areas.<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br>Yes, I meant to say if every *polygon* which is represented as a closed way was guaranteed to have an "area=yes" tag or some other distinguishing feature.<br><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
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And the reason for the area type not there is because it has not been<br>
used when it was there.<br>
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up to now it just has been simpler for most cases to just use closed<br>
ways and tag them appropriately.<br>
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Really? I never knew OSM had a polygon type. I can't believe it went unused. It would certainly simplify things, as I've demonstrated... I know OSM is all about "no rules" but in my experience, just the right amount of rules can make you really productive.<br>
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