[OSM-dev] API 0.7 brainstorming

Stefan Keller sfkeller at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 23:46:14 GMT 2010


There is one single shortcoming: The lack of a "first class" element
called (multi-)polygon.
This hurts consistent and easy data acquisition from the users point
of view as well as data managment.

Yours, S.

2010/12/30 Simon Ward <simon at bleah.co.uk>:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:05:12AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> Are you kidding? Thousands of people use the API each day, and
>> nobody gets a pony. I consider this a severe shortcoming.
>
> Verily, I didn’t get a pony from this:
>
> http://api.openstreetmap.org/omg/pony
>
> Simon
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