[OSM-dev] proposal to kill areas

Nigel Magnay nigel.magnay at gmail.com
Thu Jul 20 17:48:03 BST 2006


IMO - Sounds to me like an area is a subclass of way, with the
constraint that the start and end node must be the same. The API
should enforce this, but it doesn't neccesarily require separate
storage.

On 20/07/06, Immanuel Scholz <immanuel.scholz at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > There are only 4 areas in OSM and osmarender treats certain tagged ways
> > as an area. I figure it'd make the server simpler and make client area
> > support simpler if 'area=true' on a way made it in to an area.
> >
> > Functionally, if they were working, an area is identical to a way
> > already.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I am not very happy with an area defined as it is currently.
>
> The problem I see is, that there are too many possibilities to specify an
> ill-formed area.
>
> I have no problem with deleting the 4 areas (probably test areas anyway?),
> skip out the area feature from the server for now and maybe reopen the
> brain storming for a different data structure solution.
>
> Even if the current data structure is kept, I dislike the idea of
> specifying an "area" as a parametrized kind of way.
>
>
> Ciao, Imi
>
>
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