On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 03:23:35AM -0700, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: > > I tend to be against strict rules of any kind but when it comes to > > the question of what exactly a complex relation means I think it > > would be good to have one definition which every tool writer > > should aspire to implement. > > I'd agree with your general point, but in the particular case of > multipolygons, it seems highly likely that these will be obsoleted by a > proper area type in API 0.7. The existing multipolygon type also seems to me
Thats sounds rather optimistic to me. As far as I know everybody who has thought about a proper area type has given up, because nobody could find a way how it was to be implemented solving all the different design problems with it. I know I sort of have. But I still hope somebody will sometime come up with a brilliant plan, because I also do think that we need an area type. Before we start this discussion here again. Please everybody have a look at the wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/The_Future_of_Areas) and read about all the things people have already proposed and thought about. Jochen -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
