On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:42 PM, John Whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > No its specific to Canada, we have a very good source of data which would > work well as a base layer. So the protection would be to prevent it being > modified. I'm asking at a technical level only here.
Yes other people have asked similar questions before on the talk@ list. There's no reason to block such modifications on the OpenStreetMap API level, nor is that a good idea. Imagine for example if somebody wanted to connect a footway to some super-accurate & official government surveyed residential way. You wouldn't be able to do that without modifying the accurate way. The right way to do this is to feed of the API (& planet.osm.org) and write an application that monitors whether any of this data is being edited and have a human somewhere notified if it's being modified. The upside doing it like that is that it works for everything, not just something you want to lock in place. For instance you might notify someone interested in internationalization if a local name tag gets changed or removed. You also avoid complexity at the OpenStreetMap API level and don't violate the "It's a wiki map" principle. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
