[OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-nl] Recent Edits

[Tom Hughes]

In message <de533f6b4f.tom at loxley.compton.nu>
          Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> In message <47A50ADC.3000303 at arjam.net>
>           "Robert (Jamie) Munro" <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:
> 
> > What does the separate object type gain us exactly, apart from more code
> > to maintain?
> 
> It gives something that can record useful information in a
> structured way, like the address of the person that added it.

The other it does it that it makes it possible for the server to
do things like RSS feeds of tickets in an area - if it had to search
for all the nodes with some special tag that would be much harder
and/or slower.

Tom

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