On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:21 PM, OJ W <[email protected]> wrote:
> isn't the issue here that radioactivity is like height, i.e. a > smoothly-varying value that exists everywhere and is typically > represented as gridded data (which gets converted to contours for > display). Average yearly rainfall, air pollution, demographics,... The list goes on. > with height, people said that the grid data was unsuitable for going > into OSM because OSM is point/line/area, and that it would be > confusing if you had huge grids of nodes for each sample of > height/noise/radioactivity/ground colour. I agree. There is (currently) no usable way to store such information in the OSM database. - Gustav
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