Kenn Sebesta wrote: > On a somewhat related note, openstreetmap really needs to > consider having multiple file layers-- at least one for roads > and one for non-roads.
No. You shouldn't be working with the raw data in most cases, you should be working with your own subset of it. So you can - and should - make your own layers from planet.osm, not rely on some wise person to tell you what layers you should be using. > Since the most practical application for openstreetmap in the near > future is routing In your opinion. :) > it seems wasteful to devote so much space to things unessential > to the routing question. I don't see power-lines, footpaths, > and/or parking lot aisles Footpaths are useful for pedestrian routing, fairly obviously, and can be used in cycle routing (as per cyclestreets.net). It might be handy for your purposes to think of "roads" and "non-roads", but other people have different uses. One of the great lessons of OSM is that people will map what they want: it's your job as a consumer of the data to pull out the bits you find useful. Telling people "don't map this, map that" doesn't work. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SoC-Project%3A-Preprocessor-to-add-altitude-information-to-OSM-data-tp22957839p22969424.html Sent from the OpenStreetMap - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
