Hi all, I've been warming up as many of my colleagues to OSM as possible, and sometimes this comes back to me. Being GIS people, they have GIS requirements, and OSM was not devised specifically with GIS requirements in mind. That said, yesterday a colleague approached me asking why OSM data doesn't comply to the Simple Feature specification[1] (allowing easy import in for example SQL Server 2008, which he was actually attempting). The only exceptions apparently being that self-intersecting polygons are allowed in OSM. He found a couple hundred in the Netherlands' OSM data.
Is this something that is being considered? I guess it would be easy to check for self-intersection upon adding / changing a polygon. Is there a specific reason why self-intersecting geometries would be explicitly allowed? Take care, [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Features -- martijn van exel -+- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -+- http://www.schaaltreinen.nl/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
