[OHM] OHM Hangout - 18 Dec, 8am PT US / 4pm London

[Jeff Meyer]

Lester - you've hit directly on the beauty of using the OSM stack for OHM -
all of the awesome tools that already exist can be used for OHM. I used
JOSM exclusively (well, mainly exclusively) for my Seattle map & Jerry's
great blog post discusses the use of a variety of OSM tools.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 18/12/14 15:40, SK53 wrote:
> > Many of the use cases for OHM feature data which has never appeared, and
> > will never appear in OSM. OHM is not a historical repository for OSM
> > data /per se/: at least not as currently envisaged and supported.
>
> No argument with that, but in MANY cases the historic data relies on
> material already in OSM, and AS we move forward, data currently in OSM
> will drop into the historic category. THAT is the link which is not
> currently being managed. If OHM uses the same editor tools as OSM then
> the process is identical, and the like of JOSM allows complex add-ons to
> be created to add analysis tools as well as display multiple layers of
> data.
>
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