[OSM-talk] The segments vs ways vs superways question again...

[David Earl]

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> again...
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> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:59:36AM -0000, David Earl wrote:
> > OK, so you could have the area analogy of a group as well; but
> my point was
> > that it might be a good idea to distinguish areas from paths explicitly
> > rather than implicitly.
>
> Why? What problems would it solve?
>
> cu bart

It makes it easier for renderers and editors to interpret and render the
data, and removes a possible source of ambiguity. A polygon is fundamentally
different from a polyline, so it seems more natural to represent them
separately rather than inferring it indirectly.

David