On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Sjors Provoost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was thinking about entering as a user with a name like 'SRTM-bot',
Sjors, I urge you as strongly as I can - please DO NOT put SRTM-derived height data into the OSM database. > One solution I can think of is to automatically recalculate the > altitude of a moved node This surely underlines that there is no benefit to having the SRTM data in the OSM database. If an application needs to know the SRTM-derived height of the nodes, it should calculate it as and when it needs to. You appear to have forgotten or not taken into account that there are many different algorithms for calculating the height of a given point from SRTM, and there is nothing to say that whichever algorithm you use will be the best. > > > 3 - add extra nodes along long ways with few far-between nodes Please do not add nodes to the OSM database for this purpose. It provides no benefit to the OSM community. Thanks, Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
