[OSM-dev] Consensus on areas?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Etienne wrote:

> The real problem is that segments have very little purpose in this model.

Did anything ever come of the following posting of Steve's from 1st  
August? (with which, FWIW, I agree 100%):

> As they stand, ways are being used as a collection of segments and the
> segs arn't being tagged with anything. This wasn't how I thought it
> would go. I figured that a way might be oneway, but the one segment at
> the top that wasnt oneway could be tagged as such and 'override' the way
> properties for just that segment. Instead from what I've seen people are
> tagging this up as two seperate ways.
>
> I don't actually care how it's done, I'm just saying that the way I
> thought it would go is significantly different.
>
> So yes, maybe all the segments should be converted in to ways of nodes,
> and ways similarly. Then you can tag with area=yes to get areas too.
>
> Since I'm in a bit of flux about whether to change the db drastically
> with the rails implementation perhaps this is the time to do it, too.

Richard