Re: [OSM-dev] Relations, landuse, and gml2osm mess

2008-04-01 Thread Stefan Keller
Dear Frederik, You wrote: > As far as I see, GML is based on "profiles" which seem to define a lot > of what's in the file. Could I simply define an "OSM profile", export > GML using that profile and tell everybody that I now support GML? > Would applications that claim to support GML be able to r

Re: [OSM-dev] Relations, landuse, and gml2osm mess

2008-03-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 06:04:04PM +0200, Stefan Keller wrote: > GML uses XML and you can use XLink to encode relationships - even > between layers. And "layers" can be put in one file. GML > purposely encodes polygons as separate object to support object > oriented handling. This does not exc

Re: [OSM-dev] Relations, landuse, and gml2osm mess

2008-03-30 Thread Stefan Keller
Ivan, Frederic asked: >> Out of interest about the whole GML stuff - if you apply the XSLT from >> here [...] to your OSM file, does the result even remotely look like the GML >> that you originally put in? And you answered: > I won't even bother running it - it is missing things like linearRings

Re: [OSM-dev] Relations, landuse, and gml2osm mess

2008-03-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, >> I have heard people say that GML supports topology, > > Ha! > > Given my experiences with GML, it supports topology in some alternate > universe > only. Thanks. I was suspecting as much, but have often been told by GIS people that there is support, pointing to some obscure bit of GML

Re: [OSM-dev] Relations, landuse, and gml2osm mess

2008-03-30 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Domingo, 30 de Marzo de 2008, Frederik Ramm escribió: > > If I use a relation of ways (making up a ring) as the outer (or inner) > > hull of a multipolygon relation[2], will it work? > > Don't think it would currently, but it sure could be arranged. Some > editors (*cough*) still have problems w

Re: [OSM-dev] Relations, landuse, and gml2osm mess

2008-03-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > If I use a relation of ways (making up a ring) as the outer (or inner) hull > of > a multipolygon relation[2], will it work? Don't think it would currently, but it sure could be arranged. Some editors (*cough*) still have problems with nested relations though.[*] I recently suggested tha

[OSM-dev] Relations, landuse, and gml2osm mess

2008-03-29 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
Hi all, I've been updating my gml2osm script during all day, feeding it with the Naga City data, which is in the public domain. Re-read the "talk" list for more info on that data. You can download the resulting .osm file (can be opened in JOSM, etc) from http://blackspark.homelinux.net/landuse