On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Why would you split the linestring? > 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. As I said, that's too bad. Do you care to elaborate on what the disadvantages would be? The only disadvantage I can see is that the API would have to be altered. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
