On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > On 05/29/2011 12:56 PM, Anthony wrote: >> What do you mean by "global consistency" and why is it desired? > > Having some kind of uniformity on a large scale means you wouldn't have > to learn how to read the map again just because you moved or traveled to > an arbitrary jurisdiction.
Great, so to answer your question, we've already achieved global consistency. > Also provides consistency for routers, since > I can pretty much guarantee there's not a router out there that > arbitrarily changes it's behavior based on what part of OpenStreetMap > it's looking at... Then you can pretty much guarantee that there's not a router out there that works very well on OSM data across multiple locations. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
