[OSM-talk] Segments, Ways, and the data model

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Monday 25 September 2006 12:25, Andrew Findlay wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 11:32:34PM +0100, Etienne wrote:
> > Think of ways as a replacement for segments.  Segments can have only two
> > nodes.  Ways can have as many nodes as you need.  So ways are better than
> > segments.  One day soon ways will be re-defined as a list of nodes
> > instead of a list of segments.  Then all segements will be replaced by
> > ways with just two nodes.  After that, no more segments.
>
> If that is going to happen then I think the editors need to be modified
> to make it easier to merge and split ways. There are large parts of the
> world at the moment with just segments, and it would be a daunting task
> to update such an area if it suddenly *looked* as if everything was ways
> but in fact all the ways had just two nodes...

I started sanitize.pl which later might be able to help with some of these 
tasks. You can use it as a External-Tool-plugin in the newest josm Version.

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Joerg