[OSM-talk] Another point in support of ways as ordered lists

[Robert Hart]

I just had a brain wave. If ways are ordered lists of nodes, then POIs can
be ways containing only one node. This may sound odd, but I think it has
real advantages (well at least one advantage anyway...)

I've been playing around with creating map indices in osmarender. To do this
I need to know the name and approximate location of everything that should
be included in the index. This means I have to handle nodes and ways/areas
seperately, which is going to be painful if I want the whole index in
alphabetical order (as opposed to having separate indices for ways and
nodes). If POIs were single-node ways, everything would just work with one
code path.


Rob
  


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