On 25/11/09 21:59, Roy Wallace wrote: > This raises another interesting question, that is, whether highways=* > should *necessarily* express logical "paths of travel", or whether > they are just a convenient way to represent an *area* used as a path > of travel, as a placeholder for future, more detailed mapping (e.g. as > an area).
Even the "logical" viewpoint benefits from roads as areas. When they are areas, they have two sides, and things (house numbers, postboxes, bus stops) can profitably be unambiguously attached to the appropriate edge. When they are lines, the bus stop has to be an extra node placed an arbitrary distance to the side, and is not connected to the road unless you go to the trouble of defining a relation. Gerv _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
