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

[SteveC]

On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 12:13 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> 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...

This was discussed at Essen and agreed as a Good Thing. I was surprised
there wasn't a ticket so I added one

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/413

have fun,

SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/