On 12/11/08, Matt Wilkie <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been following the conversations with interest, and find myself > wondering what is the value for OSM in ingesting wholesale the public > geospatial offerings of Canadian federal and regional governments? These > are big organisations with full time staff and big budgets dedicated to > processing and updating the data. Why should/would a handful of > volunteers expend the effort in digesting this volume of data? Wouldn't > it be simpler to utilise WMS services?
Simpler yes, better maybe not. > The usecase for ingesting roads and trails is fairly clear, people are > actually adding attributes and adding and adjusting geometry to more > closely match the reality they see. I don't see the same potential value > adding activity for natural features like hydrology, contours, satellite > imagery, etc. Am I missing something? Elevation contours can be of real interest, I gather some bicycle groups in Germany have used elevation data in OSM for things like planning tour routes (not only do bicycle rides want limits on distance/day they also want limits on sudden changes in elevation (no steep hills)). As for hydrology, by attitude would be, if it isn't much trouble to add, why not? > best regards, > > -- > matt wilkie > -------------------------------------------- > Geographic Information, > Information Management and Technology, > Yukon Department of Environment > 10 Burns Road * Whitehorse, Yukon * Y1A 4Y9 > 867-667-8133 Tel * 867-393-7003 Fax > http://environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/geomatics/ > -------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
