[OSM-dev] OSM without segments - prototype

[Dave Stubbs]

On 17/08/07, spaetz <osm at sspaeth.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:20:36AM +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote:
>
> > Maybe do entities first? It strikes me that most of the information
> > currently on segments can be migrated to entities as you can model a
> segment
> > with an entity.
>
> I am not sure what you refer to but why can't segments simply be converted
> into 2-point ways with the tag IusedToBeASegment=yes ? This way you also
> don't loose any information.



Yeah, but then you have two ways using the same segments (well, nodes
now)... and editor support for even figuring out that that is happening is
poor, never mind actually then trying to manipulate the data. It just seemed
a good idea to try and avoid that.
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