[OSM-dev] OSM server clones

[Anselm Hook]

- running a local high performance copy as the backend for a web mapping
service...  or for doing mathematical transformations on the dataset and
presenting the results.

- guaranteed uptime

- mirroring and redundancy; presuming a client that knows about the
mirrors

- testing impact of low quality data before shovelling it up

- dealing with content that may not be legal/admissable by osm

- boredom

- nih syndrome

 - a

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:31:13AM +0200, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> > But would it make sense for anybody to run the OSM server software
> > without the OSM contents?  How?  Why?
>
> Localized content. A group of people using the OSM server software to
> map out all the geodata in their area, unrelated to the OSM project, or
> designed to be specialized an contributed back to OSM. For example,
> someone could have set up an OSM 'shard' for Isle of Wight, *in the
> cabin*, that would have allowed people to do their editing at Isle of
> Wight, rather than having to afterwards due to internet connectivity
> issues.
>
> Persons who disagree with the current choice for license might want to
> start a similar project under a different license.
>
> Persons who wish to create a specific read-only 'shard' of the OSM
> dataset -- only of the San Francisco area, for example -- and use the
> OSM renderer to do it.
>
> Just a few use cases.
>
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> Web Developer
>
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