2011/8/10 Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Simone Saviolo simone.savi...@gmail.com
wrote:
if we make a system that any newcomer can
use completely without even having to dwelve into the details, then we're
basically dumbing it down and limiting its
Simone Saviolo wrote:
Ok, but there are use cases where simple things don't suffice. In the
case at hand, for example, using something like direction=forward
doesn't work in all the use cases. And using direction=angle in
degrees is in no way simpler (can you figure a newcomer trying to work
2011/8/10 Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de
Simone Saviolo wrote:
Ok, but there are use cases where simple things don't suffice. In the
case at hand, for example, using something like direction=forward
doesn't work in all the use cases. And using direction=angle in
degrees is in no way
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Ilya Zverev zve...@textual.ru wrote:
Of course. When you get to the road you'll see its surface and lane count,
Lane count and surface are useful for many things:
For routing, for rendering, for analyzing traffic and capacity.
Tell me what direction is useful
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
A big +1.
I'm afraid that people promoting relations (once they understand the
concept, they want to use it everywhere) are not the one editing often the
map data ...
Pieren
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2011/8/9 Pieren pier...@gmail.com
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote:
A big +1.
I'm afraid that people promoting relations (once they understand the
concept, they want to use it everywhere) are not the one editing often the
map data ...
-1. I use them
On 8/9/2011 10:44 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
Relations are overused in OSM, and it causes a huge amount of
difficulty in spreading mapping.
I am often editing relations that other people make; they're often
broken. They're broken because it's hard to make them correctly, and
fixing a relation
On 8/9/2011 10:44 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
Relations make the map hard to work with.
Agree - one of the barriers to entry by new mappers is the complexity.
We need to do everything possible to keep it simple and usable. And
not just by creating ever-more-complex models and updating
2011/8/9 Mike N nice...@att.net
On 8/9/2011 10:44 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
Relations make the map hard to work with.
Agree - one of the barriers to entry by new mappers is the complexity. We
need to do everything possible to keep it simple and usable. And not just
by creating
