[OSM-talk] radioactivity

[Gustav Foseid]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:21 PM, OJ W <ojwlists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> isn't the issue here that radioactivity is like height, i.e. a
> smoothly-varying value that exists everywhere and is typically
> represented as gridded data (which gets converted to contours for
> display).


Average yearly rainfall, air pollution, demographics,... The list goes on.


> with height, people said that the grid data was unsuitable for going
> into OSM because OSM is point/line/area, and that it would be
> confusing if you had huge grids of nodes for each sample of
> height/noise/radioactivity/ground colour.


I agree. There is (currently) no usable way to store such information in the
OSM database.

 - Gustav
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