>>>>> "sh" == Sarah Hoffmann <lon...@denofr.de> writes:
sh> Objects are real word objects here: highways, pois, boundaries etc. sh> In other words, for 7 imported buildings you manage to map one sh> non-cadastre object. So indeed, I would agree that French sh> contributors do map other details. sh> Occasionally. Very. Occasionally. This is an interesting point of view. How many buildings do you think there are on an average street in France? Fewer than for an average street in the USA, certainly, but likely more than 7. sh> Whatever use all those balconies, patios and swimming pools might sh> have in the future, right now in the present the cadastre import sh> has become a major nuissance for anybody who wants to use OSM data. sh> It wastes lots of bandwidth and CPU time. If it wasn't for the sh> cadastre imports, we'd still be able to keep the 32bit id space sh> for nodes for another year or two, which would save a lot of hard sh> disk space for a lot of people. Amazingly, bandwidth and hard disk space per euro are increasing faster than these lazy French cadastre importers can pollute the database ... Which isn't to say that buildingless planet extracts might be useful to some people. -- Eric Marsden _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
