On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Increasingly, and I believe this is born from unreflected Wikipedia customs > being applied here, people make "collections" or "categories" using > relations, for example "cycle network North-Rine-Westphalia" containing > every cycle route in that part of Germany, or another relation containing > every German Autobahn, or one containing all McDonald's restaurants. Nice. Much of this I suspect is because people really, really don't understand the "spatial" bit of spatial databases. We still have strong proponents of "is_in" style tagging on every object in a town, when the more sane way to do that is to delineate the town itself and use some spatial maths. Ditto with spatial-collections like All X in area Y, which is utterly redundant. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
