> I'd go the other way and abolish Winter Time. ;-) > No DST = dark summer evenings. Not nice!
> Going on topic, not sure if something like time zones > belongs in OSM. Would it not be better to use a more > specialised web service to look up time zones for a > given lat/lon? I'd prefer to minimise overloading > OSM with things which are not "on the ground" data. > For one thing, it means bigger planet files and more > demands on software to extract the data you want. A handful of polygons is no trouble to handle in the GIS world but our self-made problem is that we must convert nice simple polygons into heavy relations. Perhaps area primitives will come true one day and give some help https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/The_Future_of_Areas. -Jukka Rahkonen- > Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
