Hi, > How are you handling nodes shared by multiple ways? Embedding them N > times, or outputting them first and referencing them? > Same for ways referenced by areas (if that was the intention)?
I understand Stefan's idea to be a "read only" representation at the individual object level, so I assume that he wants the coordinates duplicated whenever a node is shared by multiple objects. I say "read only" because obviously it has no topology, so it is unsuitable for loading it into an editor and changing the outline of the area there - the editor would have to upload *all* coordinates for the whole area even for a small change, and without node IDs the upload could not be matched to the database contents. We'd be editing shapefiles, basically, which is not something we want. I agree that having coordinates "inline" would greatly simplify many application but this has nothing to do with areas (applies to ways and relations as well), but I also believe that our database should concentrate on the simple tasks like it does now, and a full geometry output could be delivered by another system further down the line. With osm2pgsql going in the direction of processing diffs, it is viable to have a PostGIS with current data loaded and allow all kinds of spatial queries returning standard PostGIS geometries. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
