Hi all! There has been no discussion of areas since November 2012, and the last EWG meeting made me think of them for some reason. I believe a proper area type can be done, and it would nicely represent every kind of areas — from simple buildings to the coastline.
Please see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Zverik/Areas It suggests having an area as both an atomic object - much like ways: list of lists of nodes, - and as a virtual object to which ways refer. Like multipolygon relations, but reversed: it does not reference ways (there could be too many: e.g. the coastline), but ways reference it. It allows for better consistency checks and smarter partial editing. IZ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
