Andy Allan <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Peter Budny <[email protected]> wrote: >> Andy Allan <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Peter Budny <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Relations are the cleaner solution here. You /could/ accomplish the >>>> same thing with regular tags, but who wants to see symbol=*, symbol_1=*, >>>> symbol_2=*, etc. on every way in a city? (Or worse, a giant symbol=* >>>> tag with semicolon-separated URLs?) >>> >>> Great. So the way to fix this is to first make the data consumed. I'd >>> suggest working on osm2pgsql so that it supports route relations >>> cleanly, as you've described. Then, you can sit back and let the >>> community take advantage of the new rendering system, and implement >>> route relations themselves in whichever fashion motivates them the >>> most. >> >> I'd love to work on that... later, when I'm not working >> 60-hour weeks trying to graduate. Not right now. > > Wait, so you haven't got the time to fix the problem properly, but > you've got the time to write and test a bot, and get agreement from > all the people who will be affected by it?
Writing, testing, and evaluating a bot is within the scope of a class project for Emerging Database Technologies. Working on osm2pgsql is not. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student \ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
