On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:38 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Richard Barnes <[email protected]> >>>> 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.
Hi Richard, and welcome. I'll have to take some large guesses here about your 300+ projects. I expect to miss some corner cases but here I go. When EWB cares about the area and needs "roads, schools, shops, towns, et cetera" for their map project, EWB should add the roads, schools, etc to OpenStreetMap then proceed. Proposed well sites can be omitted from OSM as they aren't real. Survey points might be excluded it they are temporary and a node on the map at 40,30 that says "surveypoint 40.30" is of limited utility. Health records should be omitted based on impermanence and privacy issues. Still, if you need to place these items on the map, you might consider using OpenLayers to do that. Here's an example. http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/dynamic-text-layer.html Grouping sounds interesting so I'll presume that you mean grouping the data. Sounds like some OpenLayers and some jquery? I'll wave my hands vaguely and hope you can run with that. Do something cool and show it to us. I'm certain what you have in mind for access sharing. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
