<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I read previous threads but am still not sure how it applies to my following question. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm checking the feasibility of a project I have in mind, I am not a programmer, so I will try asking in lay terms without confusing the issue, hoping to get an answer that would get through my thick non-technical skull.</div><div><br></div><div>I have an idea for a web/mobile application that would require an additional layer over OSM, or other maps for that matter. The layer would be street level data, for example - categorical information on a range of street numbers (Broadway 1 through 280 = x1, 280 through 600 = x2), basically creating data for a street sections similar to traffic directions. </div><div><br></div><div>I would like to use the OSM map, and perhaps
also its capabilities of layer data input. But I would like to keep the data sets created by my users propriety, so that quicker programmers will not be able to duplicate my work using this data. </div><div><br></div><div>So in short, my question is if it is possible to use OSM to create a closed layer, and keep the data in that layer accessible only through my service? </div><div><br></div><div>This may sound like not very good citizenship, but - the service will probably be free to use, and will incorporate require other layers of data shared with (and contributed to) OSM. I just need one specific data set - layer - to be closed in order to make the project commercially feasible. And just for sympathy points - if I get going with this I will have to fund it by eating rice and beans for a while and selling the lint in my pockets, I'm still a student basically. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for any input you may have. And a reminder -
not a programmer, not a copyright lawyer. </div></div></body></html>