[Merkaartor] 0.13 and relations

[Chris Browet]

Well, Potlach is basically "online", meaning it doesn't have to 
"download" anything. It can thus display whatever it wants from the planet.

Merkaartor can only work on data that the user has deemed usefull to 
download...

- Chris -

Le 28/12/2008 3:23, Horst Düster a écrit :
> I believe that the potlach approach is a good direction. When I select a
> way I see all the relations where the selected way is a member of. There
> is no need to download all way segments to add, remove or edit one
> single way. Additionally merkaartor will be very slow when large
> relations are loaded.
>
> Horst
>
>
> Shaun McDonald schrieb:
>    
>> With JOSM, I am able to edit the relation without needing the whole
>> relation's ways and nodes to be loaded.
>>
>> If you are in an area with lots of cycle routes, like London, or you
>> hit the UK's National Cycle Network route 1 for example, you don't
>> want to go and have to download everything in all the relations in the
>> current bbox in advance. You should be able to select a relation and
>> then say download all the objects in this relation.
>>
>> Shaun
>>
>> On 22 Dec 2008, at 10:18, Horst Düster wrote:
>>
>>
>>      
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> I have seen and used the option "Resolve all relations" but it makes
>>> no
>>> difference whether the option is checked or not. Try it in an area
>>> with
>>> a large cycling route. The route relation will not be loaded.
>>>
>>> Is it a bug?
>>>
>>> Regrads
>>> Horst
>>>
>>>
>>> Chris Browet schrieb:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> When downloading an area (CTRL+D), you can specify to download also
>>>> all the members of the relations included in the bounding box.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> - Chris -
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Horst Düster a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> Hi
>>>>> The implementation of relations in 0.13 is a very good idea. I'm not
>>>>> shure whether I do understand the usage of these relations in a
>>>>> right
>>>>> way or not.
>>>>>
>>>>> Relations are only showed with a box around all related objects,
>>>>> when
>>>>> these objects are all loaded to mercaartor. This approach works fine
>>>>> with spacial closed objects like forests with clearings. But I
>>>>> want to
>>>>> relate many ways to a cycling route. To see the relation box and
>>>>> manage
>>>>> their members  it is necessary to download all members of the
>>>>> relation.
>>>>> For spacially large relations it is not possible due to meraartor
>>>>> respectivly osm denies the download. How can I work with these
>>>>> relations?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Horst
>>>>>
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