Op 17 apr 2008, om 00:07 heeft Frederik Ramm het volgende geschreven: > Hi, > >> yesterday a colleague approached me asking why OSM data >> doesn't comply to the Simple Feature specification[1] > > I guess the honest answer is very likely that most people invovled in > designing anything at OSM have no prior GIS experience. Most of us are > amateurs. We design stuff that we think works, and if people say we > don't follow standards then we say that's by design, but mostly it is > just ignorance. > > And ignorance is bliss. [..]
Frederik, I guess this is what I thought would be the underlying train of thought, but thanks so much for putting it to words so well, and for making me laugh :) The question I asked in return was: you could just as well filter the offending objects out upon importing, couldn't you? That proved hard: apparently SQL Server 2008 croaks when it encounters self-intersecting objects. Shh. -- martijn van exel -+- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -+- http://www.schaaltreinen.nl/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
