<div dir="ltr">That idea seems good to me: reasonably simple - not a new database for each usecase, but giving place to all that potentially useful data that is seen as unworthy for the main database. <div>Some categories (category=sport/birds/metadata/...) would likely have to be created to allow filtering only some features in JOSM, otherwise it would be unusable. <br>
<div class="gmail_extra">Lukáš Matějka (LM_1)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/4/7 Dave Sutter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sutter@intransix.com" target="_blank">sutter@intransix.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Creating another instance of the OSM database and server is a very<br>
good idea. I would propose we make the purpose of this database to<br>
allow people post ANY geo data that is NOT part of the base map. It<br>
would be an open database for general GIS data.<br>
<br>
Some examples of random things people could do with this database:<br>
- The high resolution imagery outlines discussed in this thread<br>
- Migratory patterns of birds (I can't find the post where someone was<br>
requesting where to do this...)<br>
- GPS tracking for running, hiking, cycling and other recreation,<br>
similar to Strava or MapMyRun (see<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenSportMap" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenSportMap</a>)<br>
- GIS Management for operations like Haiti OSM team<br>
<br>
The official OpenStreetMap database is for the basemap and this new<br>
instance would be for operational data.<br>
<br>
Of course there could be many different operational layer databases,<br>
and different layers have been discussed many times. For starters, we<br>
could just make one database and let people use it for any such<br>
purpose.<br>
<br>
Also, when there is talk of alternate databases there is talk of<br>
linking between databases. For starters we would not have any<br>
provision for this. This would just be a separate GEO database.<br>
<br>
How do we do this? I'd like to reference a post by Jason Remillard,<br>
<a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-February/066301.html" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-February/066301.html</a><br>
<br>
"We apparently have a lots extra bandwidth and disk space on our US<br>
OSM servers. Requests have gone out asking for ideas..."<br>
<br>
So perhaps it could be hosted on US OSM servers.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Dave<br>
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On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Steve Bennett <<a href="mailto:stevagewp@gmail.com">stevagewp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Janko Mihelić <<a href="mailto:janjko@gmail.com">janjko@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I think this boundaries can be useful, but should be in some other database.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Are there any other appropriate databases? That is, something with the<br>
> same form (an OSM database) for stuff related to the OSM project, but<br>
> not containing actual OSM content. I'm thinking Wikipedia has talk<br>
> pages, project pages, and <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">meta.wikimedia.org</a>; Stack Overflow has<br>
> "meta" - would some kind of "meta" OSM database be appropriate?<br>
><br>
> Steve<br>
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