On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:19:42PM -0800, Dave Sutter wrote: > This may be a radical suggestion for OSM but I think POIs should be > removed from the map database and put in an external database. Each > POI should have an address and the address is used to match the POI to > the map.
Should this be a new thread? But anyway:- Would this not be a significant complication for standalone satnavs using, say, navit? A large proportion of POIs are very relevant in that context, so presumably a new mechanism for generating maps involving at least two distinct data bases would be required? ael _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
