2009/11/28 Roy Wallace <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:47 AM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've been seeing this thread develop, and apart from trying to use >> areas and relations in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways wouldn't >> it be simpler from a logical point of view to treat ways as a grouping >> of lanes and those lanes can be assigned tags that differ from the >> ways, such as directions. > > Is a lane a directed area? If it isn't an area, then it's not really > relevant to this thread, is it?
That depends if you are you only after opinions that agree with yours, or if you really want a solution to a problem. > Are you saying that you wouldn't find mapping areas satisfying? If so, > that's fine - you don't have to. The map data is already inconsistent for a variety of reasons, why make it even more so, I was pointing out a solution that builds upon the existing logic and can cascade rather than be forced to do a lot of extra work for no extra benefit. > But for people who want to do it, they should be able to. That's what > this thread is about - giving them a way to map the world more > accurately, if that's what they're into. Sure you can go map sewers if you want, but you are describing a radical change that is in conflict with vast amounts of existing map data. My suggestion was to build on the existing data and cascade down to further describe it at a smaller level. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
