1st a little wiki (so others can try to understand) :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostGIS As i saw that on GeoBase that its part of the Open Geospatial Consortium<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Geospatial_Consortium>
... something that the folks on the OSGeo discussion list talk about (that im still trying to wrap my head around) -- fortunately they saw my email, and posted the announcement on their site, so people in that community are aware. We just have to ask the right questions. :) .. Anyway, a google search and this came up. Talking about how to make postGIS Database. (perhaps the one who posted this article can help?) http://oegeo.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/turning-openstreetmap-into-a-wfs/ and here is the OpenStreetMap perspective of PostGIS http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PostGIS I do know that in the UK they have their street numbering system all set up, so perhaps there is someone that can assist further? (i would call out, but i don't know how to ask :@) And as far as including / excluding areas. .. remember that it might be possible to make boxes even smaller. .. but your right, this doesn't help for street numbering. And using a layer for tracing wont help either. So from your idea i got: 1. Merging the OSM reference id# database (our big Canada file) with the GeoBase dataset onto a separate PostGIS database. 2. Purging the results of close lines/nodes. (street names maybe?) ... creating a GeoBase/OSM database. Where it just looks for that, and removes the extra OSM stuff that it doesnt need. 3. Then importing it back to OSM. .. purging it with the original OSM Id's. Am i following that right? Cheers, Sam
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