On 08/01/18 01:08, john whelan wrote: > The report has lots of long words but doesn't seem to grasp basic > concepts well. > > OpenStreetMap to me has two primitives, nodes and ways. These can and > are combined to create areas. They have tags attached. > > I honestly can't see any need for more primitives.
API 0.5 (about 11 years ago) introduced a new object type in the OSM data model called "relations". Contrary to common belief, there isn't such a thing as a dedicated "Area" object type (yet). For some people this is the main reason why OSM is stagnating and doomed to failure. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Elements -- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
