2009/10/7 Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:21 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2009/10/6 Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com>: >>> Any time I discuss this, I always refer to Wikitravel Press. Now that >>> I've put the video online, everyone who wasn't at SOTM08 can also see >>> what Jani had to say on this topic. See http://vimeo.com/6847540 , and >>> (if you want to lose all context) skip to 6:00. For those of you who >>> don't want to watch the video or can't, they use the name and >>> approximate location to match things like restaurants and hotels >>> between wikitravel and OSM. There's no OSM information in wikitravel >>> or wikitravel links in OSM. >> >> I understand how this may work for buildings and other POIs and it >> seems like a really good solution to the problem. >> >> What I'm trying to figure out is how this would apply to things like >> long stretches of highways? > > Ah, you might want to have a look at OpenLR - a recently proposed > standard for ensuring that two map providers are referring to the same > stretch of road whilst having separate geodatabases. Primarily aimed > at exchanging traffic data between satnav providers it solves the same > problem we're talking about here - you could refer to roads in > openstreetmap without needing to know their osmid, and it's robust > against moving things around a bit and/or splitting, merging etc. I'll > hold off saying it definitely is the answer since currently it works > in theory but I haven't yet seen it working in practise!
The reason I ask is there is a number of major highways with wikipedia tags that probably go inverse, wikipedia links to OSM rather than OSM tagging for wikipedia, I assume that's what the wikipedia tags were for? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
