[Openstreetmap] Segments with more than two points?

[SteveC]

Yes.

Streets - made of multiple street segments - are already in the
database and on the wiki:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/wiki/index.php/REST#Streets

But I havn't written the ruby/REST for it yet.

* @ 11/09/05 02:57:53 PM Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk wrote:
> Hello Steve and everyone,
> 
> Have been looking at the REST API and it seems there is no provision ATM
> for segments with more than two points.Obviously this would be useful as a
> road could encompass many points. Is there an intention to implement it
> this way? It would seem to be more efficient in storage space and GPX file
> size to do it that way rather than have a road consist of many, many
> segments. Multiple-point segments is the way I currently do things in
> osm-editor and Freemap.
> 
> Nick
> 
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have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/