Hi,
On 08/26/11 15:16, Kirill Bestoujev wrote:
could you please explain why do you need to keep France border in the
way it is now? What is the purpose?
I see no benefits of such a structure, could you show them to me?
I think the benefits are obvious.
An average country will have a number of neighbours. There will be the
border with country A, the border with country B, the border with
country C, and maybe the coast of ocean D. All of them are probably too
long to be represented as a single way, so they will be made up of
several ways.
I think it is only logical to group all ways making up the border with
country A in one relation, and those making up the border with country B
in another, and so on. These relations can then easily be used to form
the borders of A and B as well.
You are right in saying that presently not many tools support this kind
of cascading relations but I really think that the tools need to adapt
in the long run. We already have cascading relations in long-distance
hiking trails and they will certainly become more widely used in the future.
Bye
Frederik
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