<p>An interesting tech development in the humanitarian osm team. They call it separate data store (sds) it is a db server that stores additional osm tags separately from the main osm db. This way, you can add additional tags in the osm features which are then stored in a separate db. A josm plugin is also provided so that editing these tags are similar to josm's editing workflow.</p>
<p>Some useful applications can be:<br>
1. You are an lgu and wants to collect data from your constituents i.e. names of residents, demographic info, etc. The address info goes to osm, the individual info goes to your sds instance.</p>
<p>2. A real state company. The buildings data goes to osm, specific building info to sds.</p>
<p>[Insert more here]</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Janko Mihelić" <<a href="mailto:janjko@gmail.com">janjko@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Apr 13, 2012 9:21 PM<br>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] POI for Hotel<br>
To: "openstreetmap" <<a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a>><br><br type="attribution">SDS (<font>Separate Data Store</font>) is a great solution for this problem<br><br>The arhitecture includes one separate server (<a href="https://github.com/geofabrik/sds-server" target="_blank">link to github repository</a>) and a JOSM plugin. With the plugin you can add private tags to existing ways and nodes. The tags are stored on your server and are linked to osm objects.<br>
<br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2012-March/006099.html" target="_blank">The announcement and a short description on josm mailing list</a>.<br><br>Unfortunately, I can't find the plugin in JOSM right now, but that is probably a temporary problem.<font color="#888888"><br>
<br>Janko Mihelić<br>
</font><br>_______________________________________________<br>
talk mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br>
<br></div>