[OSM-talk] AND donate entire street network of Netherlands to OSM

[Steve Coast]

On 4 Jul 2007, at 15:57, Raphaël Jacquot wrote:

> Nick Black wrote:
>> On 7/4/07, A Morris <aledmorris2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Awesome!
>>>
>>> Presumably this will force the issue of of a richer data model?
>>
>> Interestingly AND's model is very similar to our own, with two nodes
>> forming a segment.   They don't even have ways.  These guys are so
>> naive...
>
> you mean not even OGC LINESTRINGs and such ??

 From memory it's

*nodes
*segments (two nodes) + a linestring to 'fill out' a curve

segments with the same name (they have a tagging-like system) are  
joined up by the renderer / whatever in to a street.

have fun,

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