<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)<br><<a ymailto="mailto:ajrlists@googlemail.com" href="mailto:ajrlists@googlemail.com">ajrlists@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Lat night I attended a steering group meeting for my local Connect2 [1]<br>> project in north east Birmingham [2]. One of the things that the group could<br>> benefit from is rapid response on mapping so that it can discuss route<br>> options for the new cycle/walk routes to be built under the project. OSM is<br>> the logical tool to use for this process and I'm keen to show what we can do<br>> with the OSM data and the OSM
platform to support the work. At the moment<br>> everything is done as overlays on Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 mapping, not an<br>> ideal way to integrate ideas into the existing infrastructure.<br>><br>> This brings me to the point though. Currently we map physical features as<br>> they exist and in some cases the alignment of known construction, what we do<br>> not do is use OSM as a planning tool. What are people's views on this? It<br>> seems that OSM is an ideal platform for enabling communities to develop<br>> their own planning, without having to rely wholly on the GIS department of<br>> their Local Authority, it also makes publishing ideas so much easier without<br>> the encumberment of the OS licence restrictions.<br>><br>> Anyway I'm going to give it a try here and come up with some logical tags so<br>> that the data does not get rendered by default unless a custom style sheet<br>> is deployed. But maybe
the easiest was is to have the renders ignore data<br>> that carries a specific tag. planning= perhaps?<br>><br>> I'd welcome some feedback.<br><br>One thought that occurs to me is that there will be many, disparate groups wishing to use OSM to plan stuff, only a very small proportion of which would eventually become reality. I'm not sure if it would be appropriate to add these features to the main OSM database.<br><br>Perhaps what would be more useful would be the possibility for people to have their own 'supplementary' database which they use to store their own data - which they could then tag in whatever way they wish, without affecting the main OSM database. How easy would it be to make this possible? So for example, people's custom renderers will pull data from OSM, followed by the custom database(s) and then render accordingly. I suspect this would be fairly easy to implement as only the data extraction stage should be affected. If we
make it trivially easy for people to add this capability then OSM becomes generically much more useful, without becoming cluttered with data that might turn out to go nowhere.<br><br>Donald<br></div></div></div><br>
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