On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:03 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A thought occurred to me, that people are only planning to use areas > because editors don't easily allow for widths to be entered > graphically.
To some extent, perhaps... but the real reason is because the inherent nature of these objects in 2D (well, lat/long) is as an area. > I wonder how much work it would be if you could draw the way and then > stretch it sideways to fill out the extact area you wanted covered and > then the editor simply attaches the width of the way as a tag etc. Nice idea, BUT then you are limited to a series of rectangles. In some situations, I think that will be too restrictive for not much gain. Of course, both options can and should be available to mappers! _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
