On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this PD thing actually OSM though, or something outside of/parallel > to OSM? I don't quite understand at the moment how to whole thing is > intended to work to be honest.
We're still talking about it; hence the request for a mailing list. Really; its up to the OSM foundation to decide. The foundation can delegate the decision to the members if you want; but someone needs to decide. Option 0: The OSM database has an added 'license' tag and the map can be viewed and edited through a PD filter. A second set of map tiles will need to be rendered. Any data edited in PD mode will (by default) have a PD tag applied. Stuff like TIGER can be thrown directly into the database as PD. We will need a good merging algorithm and way to resolve conflicts. Option 1: OSM hosts a second PD-only database. Any PD mapping data is first merged into that set before it goes into OSM. A second database would be needed. Merging could happen manually. Option 2: OSM and PD maps are sister projects sharing the same software stack but run on different servers. It would be up to the OSM guys to manually import data from the PD database when the PD database has better data. Option 3: OSM has nothing to do with the PD maps. My preference is to keep the two projects as close as possible - hence a mailing list on OSM to discuss this stuff. I don't have any idea of the server requirements. I have a few ideas on what a nice merging algorithm & conflict resolution system would look like. No matter what route we take, we will need something like that. -J > Tom > > -- > Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.compton.nu/ > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk > _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
