[OSM-talk] Highways tagging vs Polygon

[Andy Allan]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Richard Bullock <rb357 at cantab.net> wrote:
>> Am I missing something,
>
> No, you're not.

I should expand that statement. No, you're not missing something, it's
a fairly straightforward problem and your solution is fairly
straightforward and practical.

However, there are some people who don't know how they would process
the osm data, and instead of thinking that their knowledge, skills or
experience in geo-data is insufficient, they automatically think that
because they can't figure it out then there's something wrong with the
way that everyone else is doing things. And so we start inventing new
ideas with sufficient buzzwords (I hereby patent the
semantic-relation) and talk about them to death. I guess that's why
it's the talk@ mailing list and not the do@ ?

Cheers,
Andy