I'm pleased to say that the gosmore project has made significant progress this winter (|| latitude > 0 && echo summer ). The data format is already quite stable and the software has been tested on a number of different devices. You may also have seen the web routing service.
But I think the largest benefit to OSM will be the mobile editing. People whipping out their GPSs whenever they have a few spare minutes to check and update the map. Then postprocessing and uploading with JOSM. So to make it easy for them, I need to regularly generate and host OSM data for many (if not all countries). Doing it from here (South Africa) will be prohibitively expensive, but I guess one you may have rackspace on the net where I can run the cronjob. The process could work something like this : 1. Download files from http://downloads.cloudmade.com/ late at night. 2. Start rebuilding as soon as the first download is complete. 3. Host the files. Regards, Nic
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