[Talk-ca] cleaning up after the GeoBase import

[William Lachance]

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 17:54 -0600, James Ewen wrote:
> 
> 
> > At best, the way we're
> > doing things will unneccessarily enlarge the OSM layer for Canada by
> > putting in redundant road tagging information into the database. At
> > worst, you cause problems with third party tools.

> Still not sure where the third party tools you allude to come from
> though. I've never mentioned them, but you keep saying they will be
> required for special circumstances included in the GeoBase data.
> Please explain what would require third party tools.

Sorry, I guess I was unclear in my statement. By tools I simply mean
software people have written that use OpenStreetMap data. This includes:

The OSMARender tile rendering library:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmarender
Cloudmade Mapping APIs: http://cloudmade.com
libroutez and graphserver routing libraries: github.com/wlach/libroutez,
github.com/bmander/graphserver

All I'm saying is that these tools sometimes depend on certain shared
assumptions  on how the data is grouped and tagged, and one of these
conventions is that a way (read: road) with the same properties
shouldn't be split on junctions.
-- 
William Lachance <wrlach at gmail.com>