On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 09:28 -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: > Frederik Ramm writes: > > Hi, > > > > On 10/19/2013 12:04 PM, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > > > I'd > > > love to replace the unwieldy timezone selector of many programs with a > > > clickable map generated from OSM. So, do timezones really "make no sense > > > in OSM" ? > > > > No they make no sense in OSM. Get/make yourself a shape file from > > official sources and use that. There's nothing surveyable about time > > zones and nothing mapper-maintainable. > > They belong in closedstreetmap.com. That's a repository of information > which isn't surveyable and isn't mapper-maintainable and is already > being maintained by somebody else but which is available with the same > syntax, semantics, and API as OSM. So you can easily render it on a > map, but it doesn't "pollute" (a loaded word, I know) the OSM database. > > It exists .... in my imagination. > So we should not include country, state, principality, county, city, town, parish boundaries either as unless its an island aren't surveyable either.
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