[Openstreetmap-dev] Re: Street Names

[SteveC]

* @ 28/05/05 06:33:22 PM pere at hungry.com wrote:
> 
> [Ben]
> > ...the key named "name", associated with streets, is now visible in
> > the editor.
> 
> Cool.  I can see them, but it is hard to understand which street they
> refer to.
> 
> Are there support for showing location names as well? 'W 51st St' seem
> to be a point and not a street.  Is that correct?
> 
> I guess it is impossible to edit the names using the applet?  Is this
> correct?

check out the /processing stuff in svn, as an aside

> > Both our applet and map viewer have slowed down (again), until
> > someone stares at the SQL queries in getLines(). But I think it's a
> > fair tradeoff.
> 
> Eh, yeah.  I noticed.  And the map drawing has been coming and going
> the whole day.  I tried asking the people in #geo on irc.oftc.net, but
> no-one there knew.

I won't have time to idle on irc for a while, and I don't think there is
much cross-over between people committing code to osm and chatting on
#geo  :-/

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/