Hi,
Anthony wrote:
That's too bad. More than 90% of node ids are completely useless as
they refer to only one way. This is a significant drag on the
database,
Yeah well. There are other ways we could reduce "drag" on the database
but introduce problems. This is one of them ;)
Imagine there's a way with anonymous points and you make a branch off of
that. You'd have to convert that node to a "proper" node and split the
linestring. We'd end up with a crippled system like "routable
shapefiles" where you need an individual linestring for each bit of way
between two intersections.
As I said, it is very unlikely to happen because the disadvantages
outweigh the advantages. Maybe someone finds a good way to get rid of
the disadvantages but nothing has been presented by anyone yet, and I
doubt there *is* a way to do it.
Bye
Frederik
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