'OSM should be the centre of a whole free mapping ecosystem - not try<br>to be the entire ecosystem itself.'<br><br>I agree whole-heartedly with this. If there is one thing we can be learning it is that we can create separate data repositories and as long as they all have a nice API to get the data in and out then we can collect and build greater stuff with it.
<br><br>after all transport route and timetable information is not just consumable on maps after all.<br><br>Open Social Data anyone? If anyone has a data requriement, but maybe not the tech knowledge to set up a DB / service then let us know. I am happy to help anyone design / set up stuff like this.
<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>mark.<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Fairhurst</b> <<a href="mailto:richard@systemed.net">richard@systemed.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Quoting Tom Chance <<a href="mailto:tom@acrewoods.net">tom@acrewoods.net</a>>:<br><br>> On Tuesday 03 October 2006 23:08, Nick Whitelegg wrote:<br>>> As was said in an earlier post today if we can get a package to allow
<br>>> people to deploy a read-only, rendering-orientated version of OSM on their<br>>> own servers, and use an API like openlayers, all it should take to set up a<br>>> mashup is the ability to install some software on a server, tweak a config
<br>>> file and - perhaps more advanced but necessary for Google mashups too -<br>>> some JavaScript coding.<br>><br>> That's far too much work for me, and completely incomprehensible to some<br>> people who I know got interested in OSM through me :-)
<br><br>Is that a problem, though?<br><br>I mean, yes, it's probably somewhere between too much work and<br>incomprehensible for me too (especially as these sort of things are<br>generally tested solely on a Linux distribution of some sort and
<br>squeak out various errors if you have the temerity to use them on OS X).<br><br>So there's a need for a newbie-friendly map mashup service using OSM<br>data. That's not to say it needs to be hosted on or developed by<br>
<a href="http://openstreetmap.org">openstreetmap.org</a>.<br><br>OSM should be the centre of a whole free mapping ecosystem - not try<br>to be the entire ecosystem itself.<br><br>cheers<br>Richard<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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