[maemo-developers] Navigating on OSM data on maemo

[From: Christoph Eckert]

Hi,

> There are probably some hacky ways around this in the absence of the  
> actual data, avoiding a given radius around a town location (and  
> perhaps even caching data on the population so we know what radius, or  
> knowing the radius itself if this is available). Obviously bypasses  
> will probably not work too well with this though. Hacky as I said ;)

I forgot to mention that at least in rural areas there often are some 
polygons. Those are tagged as landuse=residential and the like. You cannot be 
sure if the street is completely inside the polygon, though.

Cheers,

ce