I like this core+layers idea. It would make it easier to render a series of overlays, for cases where one wanted to show changes over time.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [Talk-us] Civil War sites >From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Mon Mar 28 09:29:59 America/Chicago 2011 On 3/28/11 10:21 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Richard Welty<[email protected]> wrote: >> i'm debating whether or not i want to set up a parallel database, using >> the OSM design, to contain historical data that can be used in a mashup >> with OSM, and opening it up for historically minded mappers to use as >> a laboratory for experiments in how one would tag this stuff. > Actually, what might be really interesting is having a wikispaces type > hosting environment where anyone could set up a separate OSM instance > with a separate database, rails port, mapnik rendering with a custom > stylesheet etc. > i was thinking this could also be a model for how to do things like a separate boundary database, etc. i've long thought that some of the issues we argue about would be made much simpler if we had a core + layers model. > This would be interesting to map historic data that's not appropriate > for the main OSM database (for example, one OSM-space per > battlefield), or to experiment with nonstandard tagging, or to create > maps with non-OSM compatible licenses (although I would discourage the > latter). > we should try one or two of these to get a better sense of what a common solution ought to look like. richard _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
