Donald Allwright >Sent: 04 June 2008 9:56 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool > > >One thought that occurs to me is that there will be many, disparate groups >wishing to use OSM to plan stuff, only a very small proportion of which >would eventually become reality. I'm not sure if it would be appropriate to >add these features to the main OSM database. > >Perhaps what would be more useful would be the possibility for people to >have their own 'supplementary' database which they use to store their own >data - which they could then tag in whatever way they wish, without >affecting the main OSM database. How easy would it be to make this >possible? So for example, people's custom renderers will pull data from >OSM, followed by the custom database(s) and then render accordingly. I >suspect this would be fairly easy to implement as only the data extraction >stage should be affected. If we make it trivially easy for people to add >this capability then OSM becomes generically much more useful, without >becoming cluttered with data that might turn out to go nowhere.
It's a valid point and we could look at extensions to the project in the future that would scratch the itch. The problem is that I want to get on and do something now so clearly I have to see if I can work with what we have. My feeling is that if ways/nodes are appropriately tagged than anyone can come along and delete the irrelevant stuff at any time in the time honoured wiki way. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
