<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:12 PM, David Murn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davey@incanberra.com.au">davey@incanberra.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div>I could well imagine a truck driver being sent to pick up materials from<br></div>
an industrial area and needing suitable maps. While the 'nearest<br>
steelworks' idea wouldnt really happen, I think a truck driver would<br>
make use of routing directions to xyz steelworks or a Shell fuel depot<br>
or similar.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>Yes, we should label businesses. That's different from describing the type of industry.<br><br>Roy:<br>>OSM isn't just about routing for drivers. Capture the world in a<br>
>database, and the use cases will follow.<br><br>You're *still* trying to convince me of this? Give it up, Roy. I'm mapping for the present, and for the forseeable future, not the dim distant vapourware future. If you're happy throwing data into a database in the hope that one day software will materialise that will make sense of it, more power to you. I'm not interested in doing things that way. I just don't believe things work that way. Sorry. Please do not try and convince me otherwise.<br>
<br>Steve<br></div></div><br>