[OSM-dev] OSM without segments - prototype

[matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:04:55PM +0100, Andy Robinson wrote:
> >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.

The code in osmps (my PostScript renderer) already converts all
segments and ways into paths - it pushes tag data from the ways down
on to the segments, and then finds identically-tagged adjacent
segments and combines them into paths. I guess this is the sort of
automated procedure that needs to be used?

To the OP - great news. If I can work out how to get a planet imported
into a MySQL DB then I'll open up a test virtual machine for anyone to
play with. I'm testing OpenVZ as a virtual solution and need something
to hammer it for a bit ;-).

Cheers,

-- 
Matthew