Jochen Topf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > >
If someone is hosting their own layer, doesn't that mean that it isn't being hosted by the OSM database itself? This sounds like more of a rendering issue than a back-end database issue. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
