On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Dave F. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davefox@madasafish.com">davefox@madasafish.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><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;">
<div class="im">John Smith wrote:<br>
> 2010/1/8 Jochen Topf <<a href="mailto:jochen@remote.org">jochen@remote.org</a>>:<br>
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>> I think "don't map for the renderer" is a nice idea, but has nothing to do with<br>
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> Don't map "incorrectly" for the renderer to have it show up a certain way...<br>
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> <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer</a><br>
</div>Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned 'renderer'.</blockquote><div><br>Probably not since it's a feature which is missing from the API.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
To me, a straight line, irrelevant of length, should have no more than<br>
two points.<br></blockquote><div><br>By a straight line, do you mean a geodesic? Or a straight line when projected in the Mercator projection?<br><br>I'd imagine for some applications we'd want the former (a straight road/rail), and for some we'd want the latter (the border of Wyoming). Which should be the official definition according to the specs?</div>
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