[OSM-dev] ROMA servers down - osmosis large way problem
Matthias Julius
lists at julius-net.net
Wed Dec 31 07:37:58 GMT 2008
Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> writes:
> Matthias Julius wrote:
>> ... but not a tree of relations. Every relation is a tree (almost).
>> So I don't see a particular problem in making a boundary a relation,
>> too.
>
> Some people wanted to limit ways/relations to 2k of nodes. If you do
> allow relations to have all these extra subrelations then what are you
> going to solve in the end? This is enforcing a clueless limit and not
> solving the fundamental problem why this limit is justified; and no that
> has nothing to do with data storage.
Not subrelations, but a relation with 2000 ways with 2000 nodes each.
And no it has nothing to do with storage, only with data managable for
users.
>
> As I mentioned earlier, there is no need for even the concept 'way';
> since you can store a relation with tag highway=whatever. So fundamental
> issues:
I think keeping ways as linear primitives is a good idea.
Matthias
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