[OSM-dev] Consensus on areas?

Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) openstreetmap at ostertag.name
Mon Aug 28 14:14:16 BST 2006


On Monday 28 August 2006 11:58, Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> > Do we have a consensus (particularly w.r.t the 0.4 API) with where we are
> > going with areas? If I remember the outcome of the last discussion was to
> > stick to one type i.e. ways and then have clients render the way either
> > as a path or an area depending on the tags.
>
> Well, some sort of "consens".
>
> I still dislike this idea but nobody cares. So I don't care about areas
> anymore.

Well; i would care. ANd my preference would really be to have areas being a 
list of nodes.
This sounds to me like the apropriate datastructure for area data.

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