[OSM-dev] dropping segments

[Alex Mauer]

Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote:
> For my tastes that's a bit too vulnerable to late inserted nodes,
> besides if you put pivotal adresses on nodes you can average the others
> between nodes. (Just like you now average addresses over the length of a
> segment), just with the added feature that you don't have to worry about
> inserted nodes, and not too much about deleted ones either.

A couple of problems with putting the addresses on nodes: The nodes
can't be on intersections, and divided highways as separate ways get
even uglier.  Personally I don't care much about address information on
the maps (I have seen very few paper maps with address information, for
one thing)... also, putting address info on segments is nearly as ugly
as putting it on nodes, and I'm sure those who actually *do* care about
getting address info in, can go about solving the problems with
address-nodes as easily as they can with address-segments.

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