-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Hughes wrote: | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | |> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> "Robert (Jamie) Munro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> |>> What does the separate object type gain us exactly, apart from more code |>> to maintain? |> It gives something that can record useful information in a |> structured way, like the address of the person that added it. | | The other it does it that it makes it possible for the server to | do things like RSS feeds of tickets in an area - if it had to search | for all the nodes with some special tag that would be much harder | and/or slower.
It would also be much more useful as it could be used for other purposes, like finding when someone adds a new pub near me :-) Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHqIKNz+aYVHdncI0RAscgAJ9quEnmS5TW/4vpIXJY8LHuiuC0FACeJGU5 R+ZWExd5lFmXu0CkzGRkkKU= =FTZ8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk