On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Igor Brejc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jon Burgess wrote: > > >From a pure design perspective the cleanest approach would be (IMO) to > > have the tags only on the relation. Otherwise there is always the > > possibility for ambiguity in cases where the tags on the outer ways > > differ. Yes this is an error, but one which is bound to occur > > occasionally. It also enables other use cases like re-using a way along > > a border between 2 country polygons. > > But then we'll end up with non-tagged ways. From the OSM data design > perspective its not going to be very practical for someone to determine > whether the way is not tagged because it belongs to a certain relation > or because it was forgotten. And don't forget that a relation could be > anything. not just "polygon-with-hole", so you would have to understand > the semantics of all types of relations. > Also, since AFAIK osmxapi currently does not support relations, > renderers which use data collected from it would have to ignore these > untagged ways completely. > Actually osmxapi does do relations now :) > > Igor > > -- > http://igorbrejc.net > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev >
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