[OSM-talk] Taginfo Updates

[Christoph Hormann]

On Sunday 18 May 2014, Jochen Topf wrote:
>
> Oh, and while we are nitpicking, you always only see the position of
> nodes. If a way has very long segments between two nodes, you will
> not see a line, but just the end nodes. This will sometimes look odd.
> Thats why there are those strange dots in Antarctica for the
> coastline:
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/natural=coastline#map
>

Yes, this i figured out myself, based on the very same coastline 
segments ;-).

It would of course be great to have the relations in there, simply in 
form of the first member node/first node of the first member way.  But 
that would be somewhat expensive to do i suppose.

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Christoph Hormann
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