[OSM-dev] proposal to kill areas

Nick Whitelegg nick at hogweed.org
Sun Jul 23 10:26:55 BST 2006


On Saturday 22 Jul 2006 23:22, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> > > Sure, a full GIS system would use areas for administrative borders
> > > and vegetation types, but I have no plans in the foreseeable
> > > future to add that to OpenStreetMap.  Have you?
> >
> > Yes! :-)
>
> For administrative borders, or for what?  What are the basic
> operations you plan to provide for areas?  How do you get the
> data?  Is this for TIGER import, or do you walk along city borders
> and lake beaches with your GPS?

For lakes, woods etc. I'm aiming to use the Landsat data as it will often be 
unfeasible to walk all the way round one. 

Nick




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