On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Tim Alder <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello, > here are some personal notices from fossgis-conferences[1] in Osnabrück. > It was a nice meeting we a lot of open-source GIS-developer and > a lot of friendly OSM people. > > Special interesting was the contact with Sven Geggus, admin of > dev.openstreetmap.de. > We saw that we have the same problems on his server and on toolserver, > so that it will be good to stay in contact. > A specially, an efficient database structure with all tags to build > something like the XAPI would be very nice. > I would be happy to install XAPI on a toolserver if it is useful to people. > One solution could be perhaps the postgres hstore [2]. Also the > no-sql-databases like couchDB (geocouch)[4] and MonetDB were hot topics. > > There was a speech with a lot of listeners > from mazdermind about the status and the future chances of our > wikipedia-osm-cooperation.[5] > > We saw in a community session after this talk that not so many > WP/OSM-people have the knowledge > to work with GIS tools and GIS databases. So it seems necessary to give > more people a starting point. I like for this the usage of live systems > [3]. This problem was for me a reason to start on toolserver-wiki a > little first step tutorial [6] and I listing there some tools that now > running on toolserver. Feel free to add things that I have forgotten. > > So I get over the days many new ideas how both projects can profit in > the detail: > *We can use the wikipedia-interwikilinks to bring this datas into OSM > for interlingual maps. > *If we could bring the Wikipedia geocoded objects into Openstreetmap > (by the half-automatic way I posted in the past), the Wikipedia objects > could be drawn better in a map with nice icons with the help of > OSM-tags. (We have too many landmarks objects in the wikipedia dataset.) > *We can use GIS-tools like GDAL with GDAL2tiles.py e.g. to split huge > commons-images in tiles and present them faster with openLayers as > TMS[7], so that the user don't need to download the whole file. > > Greetings Kolossos > > > [1] http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz > [2] http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/hstore.html > [3] http://www.fossgis.de/projekte_gislive.html > http://www.lingner.eu/discosm > [4] http://gitorious.org/geocouch/ > [5] http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2010/attachments/66_OpenStreetMap > und die Wikipedia.pdf > [6] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/OpenStreetMap > [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tile_Map_Service > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l >
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