[OSM-talk] Buildings and roads

[maning sambale]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Nathan Mixter <srmixter at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, Naga City is full of buildings. How did they get so many? Are those all
> building=yeses? Crazy.

NAGA City GIS released their data in public domain.  We are still
encouraging the City government do continue adding more data.


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> A "major road" doesn't have to be wide by default. I hereby invite you to
> visit Guadarrama, where a trunk road (the "N-VI") has only two lanes, and
> buildings are just one meter away from the asphalt.
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> Yes, I agree that the rendering is messed up at low zoom levels (see Naga
> City in the Phillipines), but at higher zoom levels, I see no other easy
> solution.
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> (In a perfect world, a road would be not a line, but a polygon, so the width
> and area could be perfectly known).
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> Cheers,
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> --
>
> Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>
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> Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta
> compleja.
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maning
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