Hi Robert. Am 26.04.2013 09:44, schrieb Robert Banick: > As a cartographic project, isn't the whole point of OSM visual? It > seems a big contradictory to assert that a visual identifier for a > mapping project is a poor idea. But OSM is not (only) a cartoGRAPHIC project, it's a geoDATA project. One - and by far not the only - use case for that geodata is the graphics - be it 2D, 3D or even Virtual Reality.
And I didn't understand anybody in this discussion as that: Not the visual identifier as it is a poor idea, but the REPLACEMENT of the text by this visual identifier is. If the whole point of OSM would be visual, we would paint collaboratively on a big canvas. Instead we put data in a database, state where streets are intersecting and where they cross without being connected using a bridge or a tunnel. That's why routing, geocoding and much more is possible with OSM. Reducing that to a visual project is a common error, but it's not correct. regards Peter _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk