Re: [Talk-us] Seeing things you don't care about in the database

2012-06-12 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-06-11 16:17, Mark Gray wrote: it is also much better for being sure you are oriented when you are out there and can see the buildings on the map line up with real buildings. Address and POI information looks much better with the context of the buildings they are associated with. I can't

Re: [Talk-us] Seeing things you don't care about in the database

2012-06-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/12/12 01:17, Mark Gray wrote: I think that one of the strengths of OSM is that people can map what they are interested in I wholeheartedly agree, and I would never get in the way of someone mapping all building footprints in a city - if it is worth that much effort to him then this

Re: [Talk-us] Seeing things you don't care about in the database

2012-06-11 Thread andrzej zaborowski
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Nathan Edgars II > wrote: >> I agree with this. But I'm not sure that there is a solution. You can use >> XAPI/Overpass API to download only roads in an area, but you get conflicts >> (or worse, you move a node and screw up something else without realizing it) >>

Re: [Talk-us] Seeing things you don't care about in the database

2012-06-11 Thread the Old Topo Depot
>From a slightly different perspective, there are, in fact, many solutions, each of which may be suboptimal in some respects. In any case, the scalability issues arising as a result of data growth will need to be dealt with. Some benefits may be had looking for optimizations to apply to data down

Re: [Talk-us] Seeing things you don't care about in the database

2012-06-11 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/11/2012 7:17 PM, Mark Gray wrote: On one hand, I share the frustration of having lots of new data in an area making some of our tools slower and more difficult to use. In my area a building footprint import slowed down most of the mapping tools and land use polygons can get in the way of edi

[Talk-us] Seeing things you don't care about in the database

2012-06-11 Thread Mark Gray
On one hand, I share the frustration of having lots of new data in an area making some of our tools slower and more difficult to use. In my area a building footprint import slowed down most of the mapping tools and land use polygons can get in the way of editing roads. On the other hand, I really