http://www.edparsons.com/2008/05/woeid-first-big-announcement-of-where-20-2008/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.edparsons.com/2008/05/woeid-first-big-announcement-of-where-20-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-151530 Steven Feldman Sat, 17 May 2008 17:50:56 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=681#comment-151530 in the early days at whereonearth we talked about these IDs and but we wanted to call them woekeys - there were a lot of star wars fans at the time. in the early days at whereonearth we talked about these IDs and but we wanted to call them woekeys – there were a lot of star wars fans at the time.

]]> http://www.edparsons.com/2008/05/woeid-first-big-announcement-of-where-20-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-151529 James Tue, 13 May 2008 11:12:13 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=681#comment-151529 Yes, TOIDs are a fairly pointless creation of the OS. Yes, you can pass TOIDs around freely but what's the point unless you have a Mastermap licence....none whatsoever. The OS is still trying to get people to base their own geometry requirements on Mastermap by aggregating TOIDs together so you end up with a custom polygon which fits your requirements....the concept being one set of map data with multiple views into the data. All very well until you chuck in the nightmare of managing change only updates and the fact that a lot of user geometry does not 'fit' with topographic Mastermap features, so you end up with 'hybrid' polygons based upon some original Mastermap and some home brew polygons....basically a right mess. I'm surprised OS is still pushing TOID's and I've only met one other local government user who actually uses them! Yes, TOIDs are a fairly pointless creation of the OS. Yes, you can pass TOIDs around freely but what’s the point unless you have a Mastermap licence….none whatsoever. The OS is still trying to get people to base their own geometry requirements on Mastermap by aggregating TOIDs together so you end up with a custom polygon which fits your requirements….the concept being one set of map data with multiple views into the data. All very well until you chuck in the nightmare of managing change only updates and the fact that a lot of user geometry does not ‘fit’ with topographic Mastermap features, so you end up with ‘hybrid’ polygons based upon some original Mastermap and some home brew polygons….basically a right mess. I’m surprised OS is still pushing TOID’s and I’ve only met one other local government user who actually uses them!

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