<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Seems to me the best way to distribute data this frequently would be a filtered (ie no user identifiable tables) database replication.<br><br>----- Original Message ----<br>From: Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt@crschmidt.net><br>To: talk@openstreetmap.org<br>Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:32:48 AM<br>Subject: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Pledge<br><br><div>If someone sets up a way for me to obtain, nightly, the worldwide output<br>of the getnodes function for the whole world, and the corresponding<br>getlines call from those returned nodes (as described in the file<br>dao.rb), before the 10th of June, I will donate $200 towards the<br>OpenStreetMap project.<br><br>I will also, from this data, set up a rendered version of OpenStreetMap,<br>in
a tiled instance of OpenLayers, on hardware that can support a lot of<br>traffic, and build code that will convert this data into a shapefile<br>every night, to be used by whatever projects people want to use them<br>for, releasing the shapefile under the same license as OSM.<br><br>Anselm Hook has offered to match that contribution.<br><br>-- <br>Christopher Schmidt<br>Web Developer<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br>talk@openstreetmap.org<br><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk</a><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>