[OSM-talk] Advanced Relationships

[Peter Miller]

Would it be sensible to have a discussion about Ways?

Is there an opportunity to finesse Ways into something more like a GDF Road
Element(ie something that connects two Junctions), or introduce Road
Elements  as a new item (that have an associated list intermediate nodes and
hence elegantly absorbs Segements) and leave 'Ways' to cover the
functionality of Aggregated ways in GDF (ie big long things?)


Regards,



Peter



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frederik at remote.org]
> Sent: 20 June 2007 10:51
> To: Peter Miller
> Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Advanced Relationships
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> > I think you need to be careful about saying that a change is
> > ‘widely’ supported.  My experience says that there is a
> > considerable risk of a minority agreeing on a particular change and
> > working up their ideas and enthusiasm only the find serious
> > resistance when actual implementation is proposed.
> You're right but as regards the abolishment of segments, we're past
> the step of proposing and discussing things. We will get rid of
> segments once we have the means to do so (i.e. we need someone to
> make the changes in the API, people to change the major editors,
> people to change the major renderers).
> 
> This is really something that's just waiting for implementation. It
> may wait forever if nobody does it, but if somebody (or a group of
> people) have the skills to do it, they will, without any further
> discussion about the merits.
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 
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