On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Lord-Castillo, Brett < [email protected]> wrote:
> Just thought I would add that both the Google and ESRI programs allow for > community edits, which we can get back out into our systems. > > Community BaseMaps even makes the data directly available to end users > (potentially with database synchronization, so you can get only edits pushed > out to you nightly). > None of that is available to "regular Joe Schmoe" (my definition of "community"), though. I'm sure you have a contract in place ESRI that gives you access to the Community Basemaps and a similar contract for Google's setup. These contracts prevent your citizens from using the data in the same way that OSM would allow them to. > > > What we want out of our data upload is a publically available common > basemap that provides an equal base to our enterprise applications and to > public mashup developers with no mapping experience. What we offer to > support that is the work of our 20+ cartographers who have direct access to > resources that no one outside their office has access to. > When you say a basemap, are you describing the actual data or the images that would be placed behind mashups or enterprise applications?
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