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> From: Richard Barnes <[email protected]> > Date: July 10, 2010 4:48:57 PM GMT+02:00 > To: SteveC <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OSM Development > > Feel free, and congratulations! > > Further investigation of the OSM API implies that it may be possible to > obtain many of the features client-side, but merge/update public data. > > ~R~ > > On 07/10/2010 05:36 AM, SteveC wrote: >> Richard I'm on honeymoon and at the annual conference do you mind if I >> bounce this to people with the time to help? >> >> On Jul 7, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Richard Barnes wrote: >> >> >>> Steve, >>> This is Richard Barnes. I've been hired by Engineers Without Borders, >>> University of Minnesota as part of an initiative to find a mapping solution >>> for EWB-USA. >>> >>> My work includes identifying an existing solution which meets >>> requirements, identifying a solution which can be modified to meet >>> requirements (and helping with said modifications), or designing a program >>> from scratch. >>> >>> OSM certainly comes in at the top of the list of solutions I've looked >>> at, but there are several key features missing from what I've been asked to >>> create. Notably, EWB has 300+ projects world-wide, primarily in developing >>> countries. Some of the data these projects generate could be made public >>> (roads, schools, shops, towns, et cetera), but other data is only useful to >>> a project (potential well sites, survey points, et cetera) or private >>> (instances of malaria cases, metadata regarding the health of homes >>> surveyed in an area). Further, the ability to group any sort of data and >>> share the grouped data in a controlled fashion (shared access to private >>> data) with other partners (NGOs, review boards) would be necessary. >>> Grouping would also be used to enable downloading of the raw GPS data at >>> future times for use in the field. >>> >>> At present OSM doesn't seem to provide grouping or access sharing >>> features. I've taken note of the warnings against people who provide >>> suggestions without helping. So, there's a question. Are these sorts of >>> features, or some subset of them, in-line with OSM's vision or should they >>> be implemented elsewhere? If a subset useful to the both of us could be >>> implemented, I have the time and resources to commit to that effort. >>> >>> Thanks for your time, >>> Richard Barnes >>> >>> >> Steve >> >> stevecoast.com >> >> > > Steve stevecoast.com _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
