Bob, Hosting a private OSM is exactly what USGS is doing with the National Map Corps:
http://navigator.er.usgs.gov/ A fundamental problem with a "locking" feature is that it assumes the authority that holds the lock is able to produce the highest quality data. This is anathema to the spirit of OSM. -Eric -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734 On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) <[email protected]> wrote: > Frederic, > > > > I’ve mentioned this before (and haven’t seen a solution back yet), but a > method for organizations to take responsibility for an area and maintain > specific items in that area. > > > > I work for the City of Saint Paul. OSM is not of any use to us unless I > upload our data. As an example dataset, let’s use our Street Centerlines, > which we have a lot of time invested in keeping up to date and spatially > accurate. We do this by mandate and get paid to do it. If these features > are added to OSM, there is no way to maintain (keep them locked up edit > wise) for only our staff to adjust. > > > > We actually want to become the custodians of this type of data (amoung > others) for a particular bounding area, and want others to tell us when the > data is incorrect. Until this type of feature control is in place, it’s not > easy for me to push for OSM adoption at our organization, or others that use > our datasets. > > > > One thought I had was to host a private OSM service that could be mixed into > the open data side in some manner. I’m open to further discussions on this > topic, and truthfully I haven’t looked back at OSM for over a year now, so > something may be in place for this type of usage that I don’t know about. > > > > Bobb > > > > > > > > From: Geowanking [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Frederic Julien > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 12:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Geowanking] OSM Data Quality > > > > Dear all, > > > > I'm working on a presentation and interested to hear your thoughts. What are > the top 2-3 changes that could improve OSM data quality? That could be > processes, tools, methods, training, peer review, attributes, etc. > > > > If this sort of info is available elsewhere let me know. > > > > Looking forward to your answers. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Frederic > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
