[OSM-dev] Area support

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Wed Jul 23 21:58:23 BST 2008


Hi,

> No, thats not obvious. You can use this argument to model ways as
> relations, too. 

I won't go there.

> The _main_ problem with areas as ways is IMHO that they introduce an
> enormous amount of redundancy. A road that is the boundary between
> farmland and forest has three (partial) ways now. These need to be kept
> in sync. This will not work.

Depends on the editors. Current version of JOSM does exactly the right 
thing; if someone adds a node, it will be added to all three ways, and 
moving it moves all three.

Bye
Frederik

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