Hi, Russ Nelson wrote: > Sorry if I wax too philosophic here, but I'm a combiner, not a > splitter.
I think you are first and foremost lazy ;-). You want un-editable data in OSM not because it benefits OSM in some way but because you are used to working with the OSM toolchain and you would like your extra data in OSM because this makes things easier for you. Rather than somehow setting up a toolchain that draws OSM data from OSM and immutable extra data from other sources, you'd prefer to dump everything into OSM because it is more convenient for you. While such laziness often drives great inventions, I think in this case your idea is detrimental to OSM. OSM is not a protocol, a hull, a container for stuff that people pour in; nothing in OSM has the right to remain separate from the rest. What you want to have is OSM as a transport medium: Pour in you data and get it out conveniently mixed with other stuff. But OSM doesn't do that; if you pour in data, it gets assimilated into the system; people build on it, modify it, or delete it. What you really need is a Mapnik (or other) setup where you can conveniently tick various sources - roads and POIs from OSM, immutable borders from government agency X, landuse areas from government agency Y - and merge them into one map rendering setup. Just because such a comfortable solution does not yet exist should not be an excuse to dump everything into OSM in a "please don't work with this data, just transport it for me" kind of way. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
