On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Stefan de Konink <[email protected]> wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: >> Stefan de Konink wrote: >>> Even in 0.5 relations can be ordered using the type='...'. >> >> You're getting (more) ridiculous. >> >> What are you trying to prove here? That you're right and the rest is >> wrong? That you are a masterful programmer and the others just dumb >> fiddlers? > > Matt claimed it was impossible to do order in relations within API 0.5. That > argument is wrong. That is the only thing I'm proving here. And I did make > an error because I should talked about role instead of type.
you're right - i should have said ways can't be transparently modelled using relations in the 0.5 database structure. you could use role for ordering, but the ordering would have to be imposed client-side. the client also has to deal with whatever meaning is assigned to other relation members of the way or members with non-numeric roles. its much easier for the client with ways... relations are an incredibly powerful structure, which can be used to model just about anything. whether they *should* be used is a different, mostly non-technical, discussion. for example, it is possible to build a turing complete computer with a single, incredibly powerful instruction (subleq / subneg) but that doesn't mean i want to program it :-) cheers, matt _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
