<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: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Sven Rautenberg <sven@rtbg.de><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> talk@openstreetmap.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 29 January, 2009 10:34:03<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSM-talk] [Tag-Proposal] Freifunk/Mesh nodes + links<br></font><br>>Linus Lüssing schrieb:<br>>> In my opinion Freifunk and OpenStreetMap are both very good and valuable<br>>> public services run by eager indivuals. However, I'm wondering, if these<br>>> public services
shouldn't be interconnected with each other a bit more.<br>><br>>While I am not against working together, I doubt it would be useful to<br>>dump your database into OSM.<br><br>I'm with Sven on this as far as the OSM database is concerned - a potentially fast-changing set of data such as a set of wireless nodes wouldn't be good fit in the OSM database itself.<br><br>However, OSM is more than just a database, it's also a set of tools to do interesting things with that data and a community surrounding it. I'm very keen to see the OSM data used to create custom maps for all sorts of applications, and a Freifunk network map would be a good example of this. You could take a copy of OSM data, merge it with Freifunk data from a separate database and use Mapnik (or osmanrender, or anything else) to generate a custom map. This is absolutely what OSM is about, and I think you'd find the OSM community very supportive of such an effort.<br><br>Just my
tuppence worth......<br><br>Donald<br><br></div></div></div><br>
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