Right. In fact - it's currently a programmers nightmare: It took us in OSM-in-a-box several months of development.
I already argued earlier for an own geometry type. I proposed (and still do) to choose the "Simple Features" geometry schema from OGC. Yours, Stefan 2011/4/25 Ben Supnik <[email protected]>: >> But doesn't an end-user's software have to figure this out already? >> Another question - how does OSM do this? > > OSM is not one single piece of software, so I'm not sure you can say "how > does OSM do this"? You'd have to talk about a specific app, e.g. mapnik or > osm2xp or any of the many other apps that interpret OSM data. And...the > end-user's sw does have to figure this out, and they may all be doing it > differently. In the case of closed-way areas, there isn't syntax that helps > you, you have to interpret tags. > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
