On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Dave F. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Marc Schütz wrote: > > IMO (a) is the correct way to do this. > > > > We are trying to represent reality in our database. > > I'm not sure that's true. A map is a representation of reality, not > reality itself. True, but the database is not the map. The database is used to create a map. > With the tools available to us at the moment attaining > reality is a lot of work For instance the majority of mappers don't draw > an area for, lets say, an 1800mm wide pavement/sidewalk, they would use > a linear way to represent it. > Personally I'd say that's because the way doesn't represent the sidewalk, it represents a path of travel which happens to coincide with a sidewalk. But I think I'm in the minority there.
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