On 08/05/2008 20:47, Stefan Zeller wrote: > Hello, > > I'm quite curious if there is already a possibility to generate a street > directory for a part of the OSM data in order to have a useful street > map of a city. Is it? I've looked a bit but I didn't find something. > > If there is no such a program I'll going to program it. My idea is to > define a grid on a rectangle part of the OSM data (a city for example). > Then, with giving every box in the grid a tag (like on chess board), > just parse the OSM data and assign streets which are lying > geographically in a certain box to the tag of that box. As an > application, this directory could be printed next to a map. On that map, > sure, a layer with the grid must be printed. > > What do you think?
My next intended step with namefinder is kind of like this. I plan to expose the names in the namefinder database in gazetteer pages. It would be a simple further step to limit the results to a bounding box. Many of the problems you'd encounter in doing this would be the same ones I have already addressed, like the very large number of duplicate names. David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
