On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Pieren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Mario Salvini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you mean: > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_tags_for_routing/Maxspeed > > > > Exactly ! Great job. > > My point is that: > - such tables should be grouped in a way that software applications > could easily parse the data into their configuration; > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Karl Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Because using borders to locate entities within > > countries/states/regions/cities is a Hard Problem which has yet to be > solved > > satisfactorily in OSM > > Locate entities for gis applications is easy, not a hard problem. The > problem is only that many countries haven't closed borders today. But > locating entities within a country will work properly soon or later in > OSM. > > Pieren >
Well, OSM has not solved this yet, so it's apparently not easy. There still is some disagreement over what constitutes a "country" border. Also, you assume that a user has all the borders for the entire planet loaded into a GIS application or database, and also that all the borders are good (which they're not). Karl
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