[OSM-dev] "The Future of Areas" - open discussion?

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> also: which of the old data is most probably an area and which is a
> closed linear feature. This might not be clear in all cases.

But doesn't an end-user's software have to figure this out already? Another question - how does OSM do this?

On Apr 25, 2011, at 13:10 , M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:

> 2011/4/25 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
>> A big question would be the transition from the old model to the new, things
>> like:
>> b) How exactly will we transform old-style areas into new-style areas? Can
>> object history be preserved (very desirable!), and if so, how?
> 
> 
> also: which of the old data is most probably an area and which is a
> closed linear feature. This might not be clear in all cases.
> 
> cheers,
> Martin