[OSM-dev] Proposal: Database accelerator and dirty tile marker based on simple algorithm.

[Lars Aronsson]

Nigel Magnay wrote:

> Iterative or recursive, you still have to traverse the bits. So, if I
> understand correctly, I'm proposing (for, say, a 64-bit output format)

We're here to create *free* geographic information, not to 
reinvent geographic information systems (GIS) from the bottom up. 
There is already plenty of free software for GIS.  Before you 
start to flip bits around, have you looked at what is already 
available in PostGIS, GRASS, and similar FreeGIS packages?

Your current activities is removing focus from the gathering of 
free geodata.  That is harmful to OSM.


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