[OSM-dev] Augmented Diffs

[Peter Körner]

Am 10.09.2012 12:10, schrieb Robert Scott:
> On Monday 10 September 2012, Peter Körner wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Wouldn't it be simpler to augment all changed elements with finished
>> WKT-Descriptions? It would mean even less work for Clients and smaller
>> Extracts, though it would not help clients needing topology (ie routing).
>
> This makes some massive assumptions about what the data is being used for and in the process makes many "clever/unexpected" things impossible.

But it would also free you from the burdon of having n+1 implementations 
of the multipolygon code. I admit that it would be a specialized 
augmentation that probably should a) be called differently and b) be 
coded & deployed independently.

Peter