[OSM-talk] [bvh-osm at irule.be: Re: Prolification of the amenity tag]

[bvh]

Accidently sent to person instead of list

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:11:09PM +0100, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) wrote:
> I convinced that things like a clinic, a hotel, a gas station, a supermarket 
> are more than valuable, even necessary on a map. For one point I need them to 
> find these thing for another they help me to navigate by matching them with 
> the map.

1. you can not find them with openstreetmap.org in any practical way
2. they are very usefull to have them on a map yes, but openstreetmap.org
database is not the only possible source of data

My whole point : all this information is very valuable, so valuable
in fact that hiding it in a impossible-to-search database like
openstreetmap is a total waste of effort.

There. I can't put it any shorter than that.

> But the problem would be; every external programmer (like me being the 
> GpsDrive maintainer) has to start over again to collect the different sources 
> together to get all valuable data. This is work which will then be done over 
> and over again. Which definitely is a big waste of effort in the current 
> state.

And now you have to do the same work in massaging the planet.osm
database. In fact if every source would just publish an rss feed
with geocodes, the work of all those external programmers disappears,
the user just subscribes to the channels she wants.

> If for some reasons you want to create a map without any of this information 
> it is very simple to deactivate all the rendering rules you don't want to 
> show up. But it is way more difficult to collect all this Information from 
> other sources and then start creating rendering rules for all these tags.

This is totally NOT about how a map gets displayed. I hope that much
is clear after my countless emails on the subject?

cu bart

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