2009/5/13 Jonathan Bennett <[email protected]>: > andrzej zaborowski wrote: >> You might be missing out on a cool visualisation tool though (maybe >> what Bernhard is trying doing is similar), but that's the only use >> case I can think of right now. > > How does that help anyone a) use the data, or b) improve the data? See > ITO's OSM Mapper if you want a *useful* visualisation tool. No live > stream needed there.
Cool visualisation tools don't have to comply with a) or b), they just need to be cool :) > >> What is a little worrying is that, as far as I see, there's no simple >> way to get a copy of the osm data (as in, everything that's in the >> database), even a week old -- because the planet file is only a >> "projection" of the data on a plane. > > I have no idea what a "projection of the data on a plane" is, unless > you're talking about an in-flight OSM movie. The planet file is > everything that's in the database, barring history info. Yup, barring history info. One of the dimensions is thrown away, this operation is called projection. I don't say I need to have a use case for the full database, but in any project it's only fair to give contributors a way to download the entire database with the data they created. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
