In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 24/02/2008 10:53, J.D. Schmidt wrote: > > So IMHO it's up to the rendering engines to render the data smartly. > > It's not the rendering engines that decide what should be put into the DB. > > I'm on both sides here: I agree that it would be better not to have both > a node and an area; OTOH, there's already lots and lots of these, so it > is shooting ourselves in the foot not to clear up the mess in one way or > another. > > And I'm confused about what Mapnik is actually doing to get this right > (if indeed it is always getting it right). Well mapnik actually fakes up nodes during the import into postgis in this case, so I guess it is doing something clever to avoid faking up the node if one already exists - it may well be doing a bbox query against postgis to see if there is already a node within the area. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk