[OSM-dev] Free mapping software

[bvh]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:39:20AM +0200, lars wrote:
> Many of us here are new to GIS, but have a general computing and 
> graphics background.  It is natural to think of bezier curves, but 
> it appears nobody in GIS use them, and probably for a good reason. 
> It gets only too complicated when mixed with map projections.

This does not seem a very compelling argument. It might very well
be that nobody in GIS is using beziers because they began
constructing their data set at a time when using beziers was
computationally too hard. That is a burden Openstreetmap
doesn't share.

I think the argument there are more pressing needs right no is much
more sound :)

Which brings me to a second question : I want to start uploading
a few segments to the openstreetmap but would prefer trying it out
on a test server first instead of the real one. Is there one?

cu bart