On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:53:59 +0800 Sam Wilson <s...@archives.org.au> wrote:
> On 13/10/10 4:39 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > > Would you consider uploading the traces to an independent point, > > specifying the licence of the traces and giving permission for them > > to be traced into OSM / other maps (you specify what) and perhaps > > this could then be downloaded as a separate layer into editors? > > Yes, I could do that, absolutely. Do you think this is a better > option? It would make the traces less apparent to lots of people > (i.e. they wouldn't be included when someone clicks the "Also get GPS > traces" checkbox in Merkaartor for example), but I guess I could > advertise their existence to Australian mappers etc. > > There was a Russian transport mob who managed to completely overload the track upload system trying to put up gps traces to the main database. Separate hosting would keep that from happening - WA is on the same huge scale as Russia. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk