Philip Barnes writes: > On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 10:10 -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: > > Philip Barnes writes: > > > So we should not include country, state, principality, county, city, > > > town, parish boundaries either as unless its an island aren't surveyable > > > either. > > > > If ClosedStreetMap.com was more than a figment of my imagination we > > would store them there, not in OSM, yes. > > > A map that can't tell you what country you are in would be slightly > useless.
You are misconstruing the OpenStreetMap dataset for a map, I believe. You can use the OSM data to make a map, but by itself, it is not a map. For example, you need a style sheet to make a map, but OSM contains no style sheets. Goedel rears his head here and roars. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
