[OSM-talk] Statistics on planet.osm.gz

[Joerg Ostertag]

On Thursday 13 April 2006 12:05, Tom Carden wrote:
> On 4/13/06, Immanuel Scholz <immanuel.scholz at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Ok, no problem here. Just skip the city part off the highway. Way's can
> > contain holes - no problem here.
>
> Eeek!
>
> I think that's a problem.  Contiguous ways would be a much more useful
> data type.

Having a routing solution in my Mind I do agree.

> Ways with multiple names are not a problem.  

Having a routing solution in my Mind I do agree.

> Ways with occasional 
> segments which are slow or have different names are also not a
> problem.

Having a routing solution in my Mind It would take some effort to sort this 
out and to get it usable. 
This is one of the reasons I'm doing all these statistic stuff on the 
planet.osm.gz.
Even for reducing the amount of data for gpsdrive in different display scales 
it would be handy to have continuous ways.

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Joerg