Hello Everybody, We apparently have a lots extra bandwidth and disk space on our US OSM servers. Requests have gone out asking for ideas. We are also starting the google summer of code project suggestions.
I wanted to confirm the major reason we only have 4 layers on osm.org, is a resourcing issue, rather than a political issue. Basically, we do not have enough disk, cpu, bandwidth, and people to host them in the UK. So assuming: we can host them on the US OSM servers, the servers can handle it, and the map quality is good, etc, etc. Would there be any problem adding the following map layers to osm.org? - an overhead image layer + mapnik style. We could reproduce the work that MapBox did collecting existing images. - a hiking map, like cycle map, show information posts and route relations on paths, trails, etc. - a public transportation map Perhaps digging deeper, - Equestrian layer - Boating/Water recreation layer - Hunting layer - ATV layer - a freshness map, anything older than a year is very dim/missing. - address map, areas without addresses are marked in ugly bright purple. - etc I am sure we could think of many others. Bottom line, If we build this kind of stuff on the US OSM servers, are we going to be allowed into osm.org layer menu or not? Thanks Jason. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
