On Friday 22 May 2009, you wrote: > For years and years of my professional career I had to listen to the > stuff people (my customers) spouted about gathering data yet then had > absolutely no real idea of how it would be used. That was some magic > computers worked. Processing the data (of which rendering forms a > part) is an essential consideration *before* you start storing it. > Andy's real-world points are a breath of fresh air in this otherwise > rather pointless thread.
Er, aren't we doing that here? Maybe I missed a big gap in the discussion but _I_ thought it was about _how_ to store data so we wouldn't end up with serious problems later when using the data or maintaining it and we'd have to redo a lot of stuff. Ben _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
