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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>My view is that the project SHOULD publish
a full map of its data. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I envisage a situation sometime in the
future where it will be normal for people to use permalinks from their websites
to the OSM site whenever they wish to include a location map. This will only be
possible with a full web map presence. This will also be part of the move to a
pervasive OSM presence.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>STEVE<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow<br>
Learning and Technical Support Unit Manager<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Health</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and Social Sciences<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Middlesex</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><br>
phone/fax: 020 8411 5355<br>
email: steve8@mdx.ac.uk<br>
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Chair of the Society of Cartographers: <a href="http://www.soc.org.uk/">http://www.soc.org.uk/</a><br>
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SoC conference 2007:<br>
<a href="http://www.port.ac.uk/special/soc/">http://www.port.ac.uk/special/soc/</a><br>
<br>
Mind the (Map) Gap:<br>
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5413010.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5413010.stm</a><br>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
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talk-bounces@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-bounces@openstreetmap.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>80n<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 23 July 2007 15:20<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Mikel Maron<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> talk@openstreetmap.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [OSM-talk] OSM as Map
Publishers (was Re: TomTom acqures TeleAltas)</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I've been pondering for
some time whether OSM should be hosting our own slippy maps or whether our role
should be to *only* provide raw data. Leaving it to others to render and
publish slippy maps etc.<br>
<br>
A couple of relevant but unrelated threads today have prompted me to throw this
topic up for discussion. <br>
<br>
On the one hand, we don't have hundreds of servers that can be used for
delivering maps to the world, but on the other hand, if we don't do this, then
how will ordinary users be able to provide the feedback to us that will help
keep the maps up to date. <br>
<br>
Clearly TomTom have realised that by owning TeleAtlas they can use the MapShare
feedback to update the source data that TeleAtlas has.<br>
<br>
On a separate thread over on the dev mailing list, Sebastian just asked what
should be the relative priorities for services running on the dev/tah
server. Should tiles@home processing displace web-hosting for SotM,
etc? Part of the answer to this question depends on whether OSM sees its
role as publishers of rendered map tiles, or just publishers of the raw data.<br>
<br>
So, should OSM's responsibility stop at providing a real time API and weekly
copies of planet.osm or should we also be hosting slippy maps (and if so how
many different flavours?)<br>
<br>
80n<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 7/23/07, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Mikel
Maron</span></b> <<a href="mailto:mikel_maron@yahoo.com">
mikel_maron@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Interesting development, considering that TomTom also recently launched
MapShare, which allows TomTom users to report problems with map data. <br>
At SotM, Ed Parsons had a slide on MapShare, and there was some discussion over
what they'd do with that data .. now I think we know.<br>
<br>
<a
href="http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/3126-TomTom-Auquires-Tele-Atlas.html">http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/3126-TomTom-Auquires-Tele-Atlas.html</a><br>
<a
href="http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/2949-TomTom-MapShare-allows-drivers-to-edit-maps.html">http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/2949-TomTom-MapShare-allows-drivers-to-edit-maps.html
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