<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 12 Feb 2008, at 22:39, Fire Girl wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hello, I am new to this group and hoping someone can help me. I like the open street mapping concept and want to work with this data desperately in my own pool. :) I basically have a couple of questions,<br><br>*|*) Can OSM data be purchased in a database/table format? Or open source in some big glob (huge) format? :-)</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>If you wish to donate to the OpenStreetMap project to keep the servers running, you are more than welcome to.</div><div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Planet.osm">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Planet.osm</a> will help you get the data.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br><br>......secondly, well, mostly I am working with some new dev tools to work with this data, ... and strongly prefer having my own as current as possible data to work from. Anyone have any ideas how to get there? :-)</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Take a look at the Development page on our wiki.</div><div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Develop">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Develop</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>It gives you all the information that you need. Our tools are open source, so you can use them as long as you adhere to the GPL or whichever other license is on the data.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>There is plenty more pages on the wiki that you will find useful.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Shaun</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br><br>Please contact me here or if you prefer privately at <a href="mailto:firegirl@amorous.com">firegirl@amorous.com</a> thank you!!!<br>Best wishes,<br>%FireGirl%<br> <div> </div> <br> -- <div> Want an e-mail address like mine? <br> Get a <b>free e-mail </b>account today at <a href="http://www.mail.com/Product.aspx" target="_blank">www.mail.com</a>!</div> _______________________________________________<br>dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dev@openstreetmap.org">dev@openstreetmap.org</a><br>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>