On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:49 AM, John Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 23 February 2010 16:43, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > > We've got all the tools we need - nodes and relations. With them we can > > build anything else we want. > > I'm sure people said the same thing about ways and nodes, Perhaps they did, but they would be wrong. > why did we need relations? > Relations are recursive - they can contain other relations. Ways can only contain nodes. > I think an acceptable method of micro mapping lanes will come as soon as > > someone makes a renderer that renders one of the myriad of possible > > solutions. > > Micro mapping isn't just for rendering, in fact it has far bigger > applications in the routing side of things, eg "In 500m merge into the > right lane" etc, a lot of this is just meta information and doesn't > need to be mapped visually to the nth degree. > True, but I don't think people will accept a micro-mapping solution until they can see it. It's too abstract for most people to picture in their minds.
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