Lester Caine <lester <at> lsces.co.uk> writes: > In the past we have been told "If you want it - Add it - other people do not > have to use it". I just think this is another case of that which we need to > agree methods for since at least a few people DO want to share the > information. > If I'm mapping on some historic side port of the data why would I then bother > adding current stuff back to the main one ... I'd just be happy with the one > I > was using ...
This historical information thing is another example, in addition to more and more geospatial data that could be imported into OSM, that perhaps importing everything into a huge OSM trunk is not the only or even the best way for combining data from different sources. For example the Finnish prototype of Inspire map portal can already show about 80 map layers together without any imports between the databases. All the layers (except the two OSM layers) are coming from the original data providers and combined at the client. Soon some of the layers will be downloadable as vectors or rasters through the same porta. The result is by no means nice cartography but still already usable for comparing datasets. For example the coverage of the official highway data and OSM, Digiroad and OpenStreetMap in the Transport networks category. The portal is at http://www.paikkatietoikkuna.fi/web/en/map-window _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
