[OSM-dev] Suggestion about design of OSM data structure (take out segment component)

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Thursday 26 July 2007 18:57:38 Cameron Patrick escribió:
> Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> > Simple editors (e.g. potlach) should not worry about polys, to keeps
> > things even simpler, and complex ones should ("want to create an area?
> > learn to use JOSM"), as well as cleaning-up tools.
>
> One of the things I find potlatch most useful for is marking areas for
> things like buildings and parks which are easily visible in the satellite
> photos.

OK, let me rephrase that:

"want to create an area *with* *holes*? learn to use JOSM"

Then, let a cleanup tool (or even the API) check that a closed ring should be 
part of a polygon, yadda yadda yadda.

Better now?
-- 
Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org>