The layer rendering thing in first position has nothing to do with what I am suggesting. That can already be done with current technology. But the second one has (People want to host their own layers). :-)
Jochen On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:20:29AM +0200, Mike Dupont wrote: > Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:20:29 +0200 > From: Mike Dupont <[email protected]> > To: Jochen Topf <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple Layers for OSM > > Well I support this idea and see it as long needed, it is also the top > voted item on the ideascale, http://fosm.ideascale.com/ to be able to > render as layers. The layers could be used also to split up different > licensed data as well. > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Jochen Topf <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the recent discussion about the the imports in France and DWG governance > > the issue of multiple "layers" in OSM came up again. If we had some kind of > > layer system we could stage imports through them instead of adding all data > > to the OSM database directly and this would help finding problems etc. > > > > It turns out there are many other interesting uses of multiple layers but > > also > > many technical and social questions around them. I have written down my > > thoughts > > on this subject in a (rather lengthy) blog post: > > > > http://blog.jochentopf.com/2012-09-23-multiple-layers-for-osm.html > > > > If anybody wants to comment, I think this mailing list is the right place. > > > > Jochen > > -- > > Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ > > +49-721-388298 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org > Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com > Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org > Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 > Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow http://fsfe.org/support/?h4ck3rm1k3 -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
