Hi Mick,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 January 2012 05:28, mick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bareman@tpg.com.au">bareman@tpg.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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My goal was to create a 'Bastard Son of OSM' as a means to share my work with those people of similar interest but, as OSM has no ability to offer user selected layers I'm looking at other options.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div>Please let us know which option you settle on - I would be interested to see how that works.</div><div><br></div><div>I think I misunderstood your original question. I see now that you were proposing to set up a completely different system, based on the OSM software.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You could easily use the existing OSM software to produce different map layers for display based on start/end date / civilization / period etc. for display to users (as long as you tag the features in the map with these!).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Do you mean editor support for 'layers' to make it easy to edit only features with a specific start/end date / civlization etc.? The JOSM editor allows you to filter data (<a href="http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Dialog/Filter">http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Dialog/Filter</a>), which could give you a similar effect (e.g. only display data tagged as civilization=roman etc.). I am not sure if you can do that in Potlatch though.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Therefore I think you could achieve what you want with existing OSM software. Maybe a bit of customisation to make editing easier or to allow filtering on date ranges.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div>
<div><br></div><div>Graham. </div></div>-- <br>Graham Jones<div>Hartlepool, UK.</div><br>