[OSM-talk] Bulk import as a data layer (like gpx currently is)

Russ Nelson russ at cloudmade.com
Sun Mar 15 17:40:23 GMT 2009


On Mar 15, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Cartinus wrote:

> On Sunday 15 March 2009 17:42:26 Russ Nelson wrote:
>> Every editor should show this data to a
>> user when they go to edit.  Otherwise, if there are things that are
>> available to a map renderer but not to an editor, how will the editor
>> know that the things are in the map already?
>
> Of course the editor should show everything available, but that  
> doesn't mean
> it couldn't be stored in separate databases or displayed in separate  
> layers.
> It just needs "smarter" software.

Well, that's fair enough. We might want to be able to do more than our  
tools will let us do.

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