[OSM-talk] Advanced relationships

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 6/20/07, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > The current wiki page for "advanced relationships" _does_ propose using
> > segments, gives several examples using segments.
>
> Yes but that's because people still think in segments; all the examples
> are equally valid if you substitute ways for segments. The methods
> discussed do not require segments.

Altough, if two ways intersect more than once you'll have an
interesting problem...

Also, many representations of street numbers also look at segments
(there's some street number data in the DB already). I don't think
segments will totally vanish, but they may possibly be replaced with
"sub-ways".

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