On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:57 AM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't speak for the other 33,000 contributors, but I (and a few > > others I know of) simply use isolated nodes as a kind of ellipsis. > > > > *----*----* * * * > > > > It's quick and fairly obvious to the next mapper, but not exactly > bulletproof. > > > > One of the first things I proposed when I joined OSM nearly two years ago > was this: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Towards > > but I never pursued it. Perhaps I should resurrect it again now so that > there is a built-in way of doing what Andy suggests. > > Indeed, all that needs to happen to make this work is for the renderers to > implement it.
It's more important that the editors support it, in my opinion, since it's really editing meta-data that we're talking about. There is a proposed "notes API", and depending on how that development work goes, perhaps we'd be better throwing "meta-notes" around saying "this road continues" and whatever else. I've found many times where the next human editor misses (or misunderstands) the 'ellipsis convention', and I would expect the various forms of todo tags to be missed as well. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
