[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v5] - merge nodes to remove evil short arcs

Thu May 28 21:00:31 BST 2009

Hi Apollinaris,

> lot of things are possible im osm. does it mean we should do it?
> a way with loops must be broken for routing and this will change the  
> topology. doesn't really matter how it's done it's always a  
> modification of the topology.  doesn't matter how it's done. now it's  
> probably broken which is as good as any other solution.

Loops and self intersecting ways in general are broken into multiple
ways to avoid routing problems. It may be that code needs to be
revisited to check if it handles all cases but I believe it handles
most "sensible" way topologies OK.

Cheers,

Mark