[OSM-dev] OSM without segments - prototype

[Andy Robinson]

Dave Stubbs wrote:
>Sent: 17 August 2007 12:58 PM
>To: dev at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] OSM without segments - prototype
>
>
>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.

I don't think this is a real problem but agree that some editor support
would be needed to find them more easily. The amount of segments with data
which are already part of ways I think are relatively small and selecting
and finding segments with data under ways is not exactly easy now anyway.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk