[OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

[Ben Laenen]

On Friday 22 May 2009, you wrote:
>  For years and years of my professional career I had to listen to the
> stuff people (my customers) spouted about gathering data yet then had
> absolutely no real idea of how it would be used.  That was some magic
> computers worked.  Processing the data (of which rendering forms a 
> part) is an essential consideration *before* you start storing it. 
> Andy's real-world points are a breath of fresh air in this otherwise
> rather pointless thread.

Er, aren't we doing that here? Maybe I missed a big gap in the 
discussion but _I_ thought it was about _how_ to store data so we 
wouldn't end up with serious problems later when using the data or 
maintaining it and we'd have to redo a lot of stuff.

Ben