On 23 February 2010 06:41, Niklas Cholmkvist <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it is because I like to map with much detail. I like to map it > 'as it really is'.
In reality you are only mapping an approximation, maps aren't supposed to replace aerial imagery they serve different purposes. > That is not the only reason. Maybe it's how the map looks also in > various renderers(mapnik or other renderers), which shows the streets as > very big while in reality they are pretty small if seen from a long You will end up breaking routing etc if you don't also include a way, or have very very strange round about like routing which will depart greatly from your goal of mapping in detail as much as possible. I wasn't going to say anything because this topic has been done to death, but until things are sorted out one way or another tool wise you are going to make things very complicated for other people, and other people won't probably understand or appreciate your efforts and replace them with the more common way of doing things. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
