Am 12.05.2011 19:03, schrieb Tobias Knerr: > Stefan Bethke wrote: >> Am 12.05.2011 um 10:50 schrieb Tobias Knerr: >>> * I assume that most road shapes are adequately described with just a >>> single outline area for the entire road, and no one has provided a >>> counter example yet. >> >> Ever been to any city? Should I post photos just looking out the window >> here? What examples to you need? What is this assumption of yours based on? > > I wondered how I could implement this, and drafted a possible solution: > http://tobias-knerr.de/temp/Road%20area%20draft.pdf > > Then I tried to imagine situations that wouldn't work well with that > solution, only found ones that I considered rare, and most of these were > only of minor interest to me anyway. That was how I arrived at that > assumption. > > Therefore, what I'm still hoping for are practical examples along the > lines of "the following situation is relatively common in [Someplace], > you cannot describe it without separate areas for sidewalks, and it's > important for applications to understand that situation because ...".
+1 Yeah, the big problem is to whole area of the road/street. Then we end up that the highways gonna be only lanes. What do we do with dual-carriage ways ? Sometimes there exist paved connections between both directions. Maybe blocked by a barrier but that is no need. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
