Dear, I sent this message below to the OpenStreetMap user discussion and I did not get any answer or feedback. I am sending this message to the canadian OSM list for anothe rtry and because I am from Canada, maybe it was not the right list (OSM user discussion) I sent my message...
I am looking at the best implementation of OSM local server for a public GIS organisation anywhere in the world dealing with street data update everyday? I am from Canada and I have heard about the Canvec project. However, I am looking at success stories which OSM server ( http://weait.com/content/build-your-own-openstreetmap-server) and code ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/The_Rails_Port) have been locally implemented and used for internal web applications. In my own public organisation, we do have some legal issues with different GIS datasets (e.g. street, aerial, thematic maps) from third parties, but we would like to build an internal web mapping application using the OSM philosophy and base maps, combining OSM data and our third-party datasets (that is not GPL licence) without breaking the legal agreement we have. After building a viable OSM internal server and once it for all dealt with our legal issues, we could be able to transfer some street datasets into OSM external site (www.openstreetmap.ca). We do have very good datasets in PostGIS, we are using UMN MapServer, OpenLayers (to combine OSM and other datasets), tilecache.org, web service and MapFish already for our internal apps, but we would like to avoid developing a complex WFS-T server and applications to monitor, validate and update our street datasets, that is why OSM local server option might be a good idea (example: using Merkatoor or other web OSM editing project for low-level editing users in our organisation). Thanks for letting me know good stories of this kind, options available or critical information I might need before building a OSM local server project involving other none-OSM datasets. Cheers, Nicolas
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