[OSM-dev] Unwayed segments

[John McKerrell]

On 9 May 2007, at 17:00, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:

>
> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> (My personal take is, perhaps rather radically, that "no segment at
>> all" is better than an unwayed segment, and I'd just delete the lot -
>> say any unwayed segment older than a month. That would probably
>> shrink the planet file by 15% overnight...)
>
> I also use an unwayed segment as a stub for ways that I did not  
> complete
> or which continue. Simply dropping these would all make these attempts
> obsolete. I won't object if that's easier for everybody. But  
> converting
> 1-segment stubs departing from nodes connected to ways to FIXMEs and
> dropping everything else sounds like a good compromise to me.

I wouldn't really want to delete or wayify these automatically. Just  
some way of wayifying (!) in an editor would be good enough for me.

John