[OSM-talk] SteveC; C = Cool

Stefan de Konink stefan at konink.de
Tue Jul 7 23:06:35 BST 2009


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SteveC wrote:
> You *did not* invent the spaghetti model, please give credit to the
> original inventor Stan Aronoff, in Geographic information systems: A
> management perspective (1989).
> 
> 
>> Well i never read it and they're kind of trivial.

That was the point, at that time it was not trivial; it was an invention
to describe m-dimensional objects such as line and polygon only with
n-dimensional types such as point and line, where n < m.

I consider this in the same amount of triviality as REST. 'Why didn't I
think of this before?'

> After the years of iterations don't you think it sucks that your simple
> easy REST-based model is now made so difficult in 0.6?
> 
>> Mozart had Salieri, I get you guys.

Still you live [that was an observation I made without sleeping in front
of your door yesterday], and you have influence on the process :) So
don't you consider it a waste it got more difficult?


Stefan
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