Tristram Gräbener schreef: > Hello, > > Parsing OSM has always be a problem. There are many tools with > excellent parsers but it's always complicated if you want a simple > format for your own specific routing project. > I tried to make a tool to parse relatively big areas and produce some > easy to use format (for now csv files and postgis base). > >
I've always asked myself why we wouldn't try some quadtree algoritm for parsing/routing/filing our data... a very nice link: http://www.geog.ubc.ca/courses/klink/gis.notes/ncgia/u37.html (a Belgian in Canada) wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadtree We've been discussing quadtrees at the VUB.ac.be in the years 1987 and further. The day we heard that the IGN data would become "protected", and we weren't able to use it, we had a reason to be unhappy... Marc -- Shortwave transmissions in English, Francais, Deutsch, Suid-Afrikaans, Urdu, Cantonese, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, ... http://users.fulladsl.be/spb13810/radio/swlist/ Stations list: http://users.fulladsl.be/spb13810/radio/txlist/ _______________________________________________ Routing mailing list Routing@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/routing