<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>(Changing the subject line)</div><div><br></div><div>The map really needs a SPARQL server (easy), and cross-linking to URIs in dbpedia or geonames (which are themselves alreday cross-linked) would be a good idea (but more work).</div><div><br></div><div>From outside it looks as though the OSM XML format and API are developing in the OSM community in a reasonable way. What sort of help do you think OSM will need? Money to run servers if the load increases? An existing standards org with facilities and process for the API and the XML format? What was it you had in mind?</div><div><br></div><div>timbl</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On 2009-01 -09, at 19:01, Peter Miller wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">[..]</span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">. I know that you are personally keen on a free geographic web to support a semantic web and that is of course what OSM is busy collecting. If the subtext of your post is that W3 is interested in OSM and the standards behind it then we are all ears. Personally I think 2009 will be a breakthrough year for the project and we are going to need all the help we can get to deal with the expectations that will be raised.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div></div>Regards,<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Peter Miller</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>