[OSM-dev] dropping segments

Steve Coast steve at asklater.com
Fri Jul 27 01:10:09 BST 2007


On 27 Jul 2007, at 01:01, Corey Burger wrote:

> On 7/26/07, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>> Over in the current data model thread Frederik declared consensus in
>> dropping segments. Is that really the case? I've thought it was
>> before and been wrong.
>>
>> Frederik also noted that it's mostly the case that there is no top
>> down design in OSM, just whoever does the work. I know some of you
>> want that leadership, so I hereby order you all to drop segments.
>> Please have this on my desk by Monday. :-P
>>
>> But seriously.
>>
>> Dropping segments should be approximately trivial if we make a break
>> with the past. Here's Steves n-point plan to success:
>
> What about segments for which there are no ways yet? I know that a
> bunch of people, including myself, have been using segments to make
> locations of streets from Yahoo imagery for which we do not have the
> street names yet.

turn them in to paths -  99.9999% of them will be untagged.

have fun,

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