On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Aditya Nag <aditya.nag.2...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I feel that this problem cannot be solved just by having a separate >> server for OSM India: >> >> (A) We would most probably be using OpenStreetMap's tile servers which >> use planet.osm >> > We will have our own tileserver and our own tile style, which is the whole > point. The data used is still planet.osm . But the generated tiles are > customized for India > > >> (B) Even if we use our own tile server, we cannot fork the planet.osm >> file to just change the borders of India. If we do that, we would have >> to change the borders every time we update planet.osm file. >> >> > The change needs to be done at the map stylesheet. We just need to ignore > certain border segments so that it is not rendered in the tiles. This is > very simple to do. > Here is one such proposal from Arun which came up earlier this year https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IN:Proposal​ can we just get this done instead of talking about it for years now ! -Satya Satyaakam.net <http://satyaakam.net/> | fossevents.in |
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