[GRASS-user] GRASS-module to import OSM-data

[Hamish]

[v.in.osm] (openstreetmap.org)

Jannis Achstetter wrote:
> - You can let the script try to import "closed ways" as areas. There's
> a little problem here:
>     The script just checks, wether the first node of the first segment
> (first means segment #1 of the way) and the last node of the last
> segment (means segment with the highest number in that way) match.
> This must be the case with closed ways but can occur with unordered
> ways, too (Way: 3,4,5,1,2 for example). That's why "highway" and
> "junction"-tagged ways are ignored at the area-check.


Hi,

what is a "closed way"? a series of segments forming a route?
road-as-polygon?


??,
Hamish