Hi, > - select two or three small islands somewhere on the planet, but really in > the middle of 'nowhere', means no humans, no constructions, absolutely > nothing.
I share the concerns voiced by the others. BUT: In the long(er) run we'll have to think about multiple "data layers" anyway. For example, someone might want to map the ancient city of Rome, or someone might want to map aviation routes and airspace, and the like. While such objects could just be dropped into today's database with appropriate tags (people have suggested temporal "validity" tags that could be used to say that a certain building only existed from 500 to 200 B.C.), that would make editing and rendering very difficult because you'd always deal with loads of objects you don't care about. So we will, sooner or later, have infrastructure to deal with these things. This *might* be separate servers running the OSM API, but we might also find a way to integrate this with our current data base. Whichever way we go, if we start having multiple thematic or temporal "layers" or "groups" or "clusters" or whatever, then we can sure also have one additional layer that we call "testing" or "reference" or whatever, which serves the purpose you are after. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00.09' E008°23.33' _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
