[OSM-dev] segment discussion - fork of mysql partitioning

[Andreas Brauchli]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:30 +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Removing segments and making ways a list of ordered nodes would also  
> reduce the db load here. 

i understand this, but segments are useful for sub-informations like
bridge=yes, tunnel=yes, etc. which do not apply to the whole way - a
possibility around this would be to make ways groupable (arrays of
ways), which is technically not very different to having segments
grouped..

how would you handle these cases without segments? have a seperate way
with same properties + the extra properties (i.e. like tunnel=yes)

andreas