Lat night I attended a steering group meeting for my local Connect2 [1] project in north east Birmingham [2]. One of the things that the group could benefit from is rapid response on mapping so that it can discuss route options for the new cycle/walk routes to be built under the project. OSM is the logical tool to use for this process and I'm keen to show what we can do with the OSM data and the OSM platform to support the work. At the moment everything is done as overlays on Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 mapping, not an ideal way to integrate ideas into the existing infrastructure.
This brings me to the point though. Currently we map physical features as they exist and in some cases the alignment of known construction, what we do not do is use OSM as a planning tool. What are people's views on this? It seems that OSM is an ideal platform for enabling communities to develop their own planning, without having to rely wholly on the GIS department of their Local Authority, it also makes publishing ideas so much easier without the encumberment of the OS licence restrictions. Anyway I'm going to give it a try here and come up with some logical tags so that the data does not get rendered by default unless a custom style sheet is deployed. But maybe the easiest was is to have the renders ignore data that carries a specific tag. planning= perhaps? I'd welcome some feedback. Cheers Andy [1] www.connect2.org.uk [2] www.connect2birmingham.org _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
