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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 22.05.2023 um 21:52 schrieb Emerson
Rocha via osmf-talk:<br>
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<div dir="auto"><b>TL;DR: by providing hosting when is
unlikely to have alternative, both increase awareness
OpenStreetMap Foundation as public good at country
level, yet on the same action, provide more detailed
content to mappers (e.g editor-layer-index options)</b></div>
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<p>For non-vector layers (provided by google/OSM style tile servers,
WMS of WMTS servers) it suffices to add corresponding entries to
the Editor Layer Index
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index">https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index</a> where the
configuration will be eventually be picked up by most editors
except JOSM (you can add information for JOSM here
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Maps">https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Maps</a>). I would expect that any
legally usable, more or less current imagery source should have an
entry.<br>
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<p>For services that are not available in an useful projection (aka
one that is supported by iD), proxying them via a MapProxy
instance works very well (any adding the proxy URL to ELI), and
for example SOSM has been doing this for over a decade. Sure the
OSMF could do this, but the visibility it provides is very low.</p>
<p>As to a general open data catalogue, I would suggest that this is
too much work, which even governments struggle with. What would be
useful in multiple ways is a catalogue of 3rd party data in use in
OSM for a specific area, see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/rethinking-the-import-catalog/99309/6">https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/rethinking-the-import-catalog/99309/6</a></p>
<p>Simon<br>
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