On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Roy Wallace <waldo000...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote: > > > >> Exactly. Mapping a way as an area is fine as long as you also > >> represent *the path of travel*. > > > > What path of travel? There are many paths of travel, and generally none > of > > them are properly represented by a line going through the middle of a > > roadway. > > By "path of travel", I mean what is currently represented as a > highway=* way in the OSM database. Tobias already gave 6 reasons why > this is important. > I only found one (the one about directional information, in the case of a one-way road) to be correct. The other 5 were complaints about how the current renderers work. Anyway, I do think there is one major problem with mapping highways as areas right now. It's too time consuming. Other than that, I think it's the way of the future - I'm just not sure how long it's going to be for that future to arrive.
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