On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Pieren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pieren3@gmail.com" target="_blank">pieren3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Mario Salvini <<a href="mailto:salvini@t-online.de" target="_blank">salvini@t-online.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> you mean:<br>
> <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions</a><br>
> <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_tags_for_routing/Maxspeed" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_tags_for_routing/Maxspeed</a><br>
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Exactly ! Great job.<br>
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My point is that:<br>
- such tables should be grouped in a way that software applications<br>
could easily parse the data into their configuration;<br>
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On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Karl Newman <<a href="mailto:siliconfiend@gmail.com" target="_blank">siliconfiend@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Because using borders to locate entities within<br>
> countries/states/regions/cities is a Hard Problem which has yet to be solved<br>
> satisfactorily in OSM<br>
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Locate entities for gis applications is easy, not a hard problem. The<br>
problem is only that many countries haven't closed borders today. But<br>
locating entities within a country will work properly soon or later in<br>
OSM.<br>
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Pieren<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Well, OSM has not solved this yet, so it's apparently not easy. There still is some disagreement over what constitutes a "country" border. Also, you assume that a user has all the borders for the entire planet loaded into a GIS application or database, and also that all the borders are good (which they're not).<br>
<br>Karl<br>