[Openstreetmap] ontology, money

Schuyler Erle schuyler at nocat.net
Sun Mar 20 11:04:14 GMT 2005


* On 20-Mar-2005 at  2:25AM PST, Nick Whitelegg said:
> A few more thoughts on the bitwise idea: it's not so much for the
> database itself, but I'm thinking that, in terms of transferring
> data between OpenStreetMap and its clients (websites such as Freemap
> or other software such as map editing applications), the size of the
> XML-RPC message would need to be as small as possible to minimise
> bandwidth. 

I think that's a premature optimization. The metadata we're talking
about isn't huge in any representation.

BTW, has anyone looked at TIGER CFCC codes? I think they're a pretty
thorough ontology of road types.

http://www.topodepot.com/Docs/Doc_Tiger.htm gives an overview.

Perhaps we could extend that ontology rather than making our own out
of whole cloth.

SDE




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