I, too, have been thinking that a core+layers approach would be useful in a number of contexts, primarily conflation between different databases/datasets. But the same qualities that make it useful for historical (i.e. Civil War battlefield mapping) might also be useful for mapping of ephemeral events such as Burning Man ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.76684&lon=-119.22824&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF )
-- SEJ t: @geomantic s: sejohnson8 "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:36, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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