Re: [OSM-dev] Fwd: First experience

2009-08-24 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 24 Aug 2009, at 07:49, Brett Henderson wrote: Dennie.nl wrote: Brett, apologies for sending the email direct to you! Hello Brett, The ruby problems are solved, I mentioned them for future reference (if somebody searches the archives). Next time I will run it on an virtual appliance,

Re: [OSM-dev] Help needed for processing the planet.osm (forosmdoc.com)

2009-08-24 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Lars, While it's not solving exactly the same problem as you, the mkgmap splitter utility is faced with similar challenges. It is written in Java and uses various techniques to reduce the amount of memory required while processing the planet osm. I've spent quite a bit of time profiling and

Re: [OSM-dev] Help needed for processing theplanet.osm (forosmdoc.com)

2009-08-24 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Ben, BS This may be a little bit useless but...I use multi-pass and tiling BS techniques to get the planet under my control for my work...I'm BS using C but a 32-bit process, so these techniques should work with BS Java. Yep that's basically what the splitter does too. I'm still considering

[OSM-dev] New proposal: Bad data

2009-08-24 Thread wynndale
The new Bad data proposal is a scheme to mark traced aerial photography or maps as out of date or otherwise unreliable so that they can be obscured in editors and users don’t copy details into the OSM database reducing its accuracy. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bad_data

Re: [OSM-dev] Ways without nodes

2009-08-24 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/23 Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.de: Hi, is there any practical use for ways without nodes? There are over 600 of such ways in the database, latest one changed 2009-04-16 I also recently noticed that as many as some 7000 out of the 180k relations there are in the database

Re: [OSM-dev] Ways without nodes

2009-08-24 Thread Stephan Knauss
andrzej zaborowski wrote: Unlikely but possible. Very unlikely. What too should find that relation? Josm will not. For which bounding box should the api return this empty relation? So would need another relation with members. The mentioned ways are not referred by any relation (except 7). I

Re: [OSM-dev] Ways without nodes

2009-08-24 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/25 Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.de: andrzej zaborowski wrote: Unlikely but possible. Very unlikely. What too should find that relation? Josm will not. For which bounding box should the api return this empty relation? Right that's the problem with empty relations and the only