[OSM-dev] Please, not another data structure discussion! (was: Contest for the best UI: Howto enter ways in the applet?)

[SteveC]

* @ 25/02/06 10:56:06 AM lars at aronsson.se wrote:
> Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> 
> > > Today we can have attributes only for line segments, 
> > > not for longer runs or chains of segments.
> > 
> > Completly wrong. Ways have properties, nodes have properties...
> 
> I'm truely sorry that I'm so gravely misinformed.  Where are these 
> properties for ways stored, and how do I manipulate them?  What is 
> the number of way objects that exist today?  The wiki page 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Stats only says that the 
> database (as of February 19) contains 447800 nodes and 440143 line 
> segments.  Perhaps it should also tell the number of ways?
> 
> I'm pretty sure there are no way objects for Sweden, so I have a 
> lot of catching up to do.  I made 23,000 edits in the past month, 
> and not a single one was for way attributes.

No, it's being implemented now

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/