Hello Some governmental institutions are willing to use OSM software stack and share their information. For example they could use a base map and share information they have. Some information they want to collect and give out to public is perfectly "fit" for OSM (say max speeds) while others are purely "their" thing which should not go to main OSM database (say information like which "community" a specific house belongs to). (So they want to share all information with public, but some information should be captured on a separate storage/db)
They would like to have a separate layer to hold such "non-OSM" information. This would keep OSM database clean and it would allow government to take responsibility for quality assurance and updates of that data. How should this be implemented? Separate osm database (with data of those additional layers only) and then different editors could be used to fill that database by pointing to api url of this extra server? If I need more layers, more databases have to be created etc.? (presentation part of mapnik/openlayers is clear) I was looking for information about this on osm wiki but didn't find anything useful so maybe you can give me some urls/keywords where I can read about it? Thank you -- Tomas Straupis _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
