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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/11/2013 03:48 PM, Martin
Koppenhoefer wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2013/11/11 Jean-Marc Liotier <span
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Astute observers of the concept might have remarked that
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<div class="gmail_extra">A GIS is likely organized in layers,
but it is not necessary. If you have one big database with
everything in it (like OSM) you do not necessarily have to
organize your data in layers (might also depend how you define
a "layer", e.g. layers for users, changes and changesets,
geodata?). Of course you can restructure osm data into
classical GIS layers (by interpreting them and making
decisions, i.e. there is not the one possible layer system but
infinite ones), but for what benefit? IMHO it would make our
lifes more complicated rather than easier...<br>
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C'mon, I was just attempting a feeble attempt at humor - I should
have added a smiley !<br>
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