Re: [OSM-dev] projection for calculating distances in PostGIS

2010-05-19 Thread Stephen Cavilia
Marcus Wolschon wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: The page is interesting due to the utmzone function. This will allow to know what projection to use if you want a good approximation. It return a SRID that you can use to do a

Re: [OSM-dev] North America gone in geofabrik and tagwatch

2010-07-13 Thread Stephen Cavilia
I think it's also particularly useful in the US to see how other people are mapping the (predominantly British) terminology used on the keys and values described in the wiki to local conventions. Steve Alan Mintz wrote: At 2010-07-13 00:49, Frederik Ramm wrote: Alan, Alan Mintz wrote: I