On 28 Dec 2008, at 22:10, Stefan de Konink wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: >> Stefan de Konink wrote: >>> Shaun McDonald wrote: >>>> From API 0.6 there is a limit of 2,000 nodes in a way. >>> Btw; Do you impose this also on a relation? >> Yes. > > So you actually suggest to implement a tree of relations to render a > country? Totally break lookups such as 'is X in country Y', you will > make friends that is for sure :)
That is not what relations are for. You determine which country is in based on the latitude and longitude of the nodes of the items, and a bounding polygon for the country that you are interested in. > > >> It won't. Partial modification of ways is a good idea but we lack the >> coders to implement it in API and clients. It might be done at a >> later time but surely not with 0.6. > > So you really want people first to change everything to 0.6 and then > to something else ;) I wanted to write longer about this, but I > think allowing everyone to send just a complete changeset (within > one request) ditch REST for updating will give much more momentum, > and requires less code. One step at a time. Shaun _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
