[OSM-talk] OSM the mediocre alternative (was: don't like you etc.)

Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog at gmail.com
Sun Apr 22 11:13:32 BST 2007


On 4/22/07, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> In OSM, that would be 88. 88 queries to the API, just so I can display
> two features.

That's just bad design. There's no reason why the API can't just take
a list of ways and return all information (segments and nodes) needed
to draw that way. The way it is setup now makes it really hard to do
anything efficiently.

Personally I'm for dropping segments and having ways be a list of
points, sort of like a polyline, but much easier on editors...

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/




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