On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > and you can have very big features (e.g. an extreme: atlantic ocean), > or strangely shaped ones, where coordinates won't do the job (unless > you give much more than just 1 pair), because the "center" would be > off the object.
There is something called "bounding box" where we use a pair of coordinates for such things. This is not a good argument to put url's in osm. And if you put an url on - let say - the relation representing the highway 66 in US, you will have any way to do some preprocessing to calculate the bounding box of this collection of ways. Again, all what is said about special rendering/highlighting/pointing/etc of objects with an url is valid for all web sites and not only wikipedia. I just want to say that if we accept that for wikipedia, we cannot refuse it for other web applications and this is opening the door to a bad practice. Pieren _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
