On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 17:54 -0600, James Ewen wrote: > > > > At best, the way we're > > doing things will unneccessarily enlarge the OSM layer for Canada by > > putting in redundant road tagging information into the database. At > > worst, you cause problems with third party tools.
> Still not sure where the third party tools you allude to come from > though. I've never mentioned them, but you keep saying they will be > required for special circumstances included in the GeoBase data. > Please explain what would require third party tools. Sorry, I guess I was unclear in my statement. By tools I simply mean software people have written that use OpenStreetMap data. This includes: The OSMARender tile rendering library: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmarender Cloudmade Mapping APIs: http://cloudmade.com libroutez and graphserver routing libraries: github.com/wlach/libroutez, github.com/bmander/graphserver All I'm saying is that these tools sometimes depend on certain shared assumptions on how the data is grouped and tagged, and one of these conventions is that a way (read: road) with the same properties shouldn't be split on junctions. -- William Lachance <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
