Shaun McDonald wrote: >> 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.
That polygon just happens to be the cutted way/relation, or whatever category you want to assign to it. Sence it is not one thing anymore, it is not cyclic, thus broken thus mathematically extremely inefficient to calculate upon. >>> 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. (As mentioned; it is already in there...) Stefan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
