[OSM-talk] Oakham

[Nick Whitelegg]

>The use of areas rather than abutters looks much nicer, and I for one 
will be doing all my maps like this from now on.  The >biggest limitation 
at the moment is that because direction is an attribute of a segment it is 
not possible for two areas to share a >common boundary.  Because of this 
the region around the church, for example, is a bit of a maze when viewed 
in JOSM. The >sooner we get rid of segments the easier it will be to do 
this kind of thing. 

Yes, I had this problem when using Landsat to put in areas (of heath or 
wood) in the New Forest the other day. There's a place where there's a 
strip of heath between two woods. Luckily the directions all aligned and 
it worked. But I can see it easily couldn't...

I'd like to support the "get rid of segments" call... for many cases, it 
just seems an unnecessary extra level of data. Nodes, ways and super-ways 
(e.g. a whole A road) is better. When preparing Garmin GPS maps from OSM 
data, the presence of segments meant that I could not use polylines in the 
GPS map; instead, it stores *every* segment separately!

Nick



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