On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:48 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 May 2011 15:38, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> That's before you consider the resolution, it's so high that railway >>> lines and switching tracks are mapped so accurately people were >>> suggesting to those that make train games they could use OSM data as >>> the basis of their track data for more realistic simulations. >> >> Yeah, I've wondered for a while if people couldn't make interesting >> RTS type games using OSM data. Would be pretty cool to do a >> military/economic simulation on an area that you know... > > I think at least 1 flight sim already uses OSM data.
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