[OSM-talk] highway=track and motorcar=yes/no

Karl Newman siliconfiend at gmail.com
Sat Nov 8 23:46:47 GMT 2008


On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Mario Salvini <salvini at t-online.de> wrote:
> > you mean:
> >
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_tags_for_routing/Maxspeed
> >
>
> Exactly ! Great job.
>
> My point is that:
> - such tables should be grouped in a way that software applications
> could easily parse the data into their configuration;
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Because using borders to locate entities within
> > countries/states/regions/cities is a Hard Problem which has yet to be
> solved
> > satisfactorily in OSM
>
> Locate entities for gis applications is easy, not a hard problem. The
> problem is only that many countries haven't closed borders today. But
> locating entities within a country will work properly soon or later in
> OSM.
>
> Pieren
>

Well, OSM has not solved this yet, so it's apparently not easy. There still
is some disagreement over what constitutes a "country" border. Also, you
assume that a user has all the borders for the entire planet loaded into a
GIS application or database, and also that all the borders are good (which
they're not).

Karl
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20081108/b208f97a/attachment.html>


More information about the talk mailing list