[Legal-general] Who would start using an OSM PD repository?

[Sunburned Surveyor]

Niklas,

After talking to Eric at the USGS I decided a database would be a
better way to go. I know Eric was working on a server, but I'm not
sure what the current status is or if the USGS would consider hosting
non-US data if they got a server online.

Why don't we see if he can respond.

If the USGS thing won't work out, I'm still interested in setting something up.

Landon

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Niklas Cholmkvist <towardsoss at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> on "Tue Jul 20 17:40:13 BST 2010" Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
>> I'm curious about how much and how serious the interest is in a public
>> domain repository for data that would be pushed upstream to the
>> regular OSM database. I think we should wait to see how things pan out
>> with possible collaboration with the USGS, but in the meantime, we
>> might be able to get started on something.
> I don't know anything about USGS(but they won't host any other data
> than US data I guess).
> Though I would like to get started in some way. Even if it is a tiny amount of data
> as a start.
>
>> I'm willing to set up a simple folder structure for a public domain
>> repository of data suitable for upload to OSM. <<SNIP>>
>> The directory
>> would be set-up to mirror the 7 1/2 minute quadrangle map grid within
>> the US. I would let contributors from other countries decide on the
>> best way to set up a folder structure representing a grid of their own
>> country.
> I've thought of this "non-high-technology" folder structure myself,
> setting up a personal CC0 data set. If I add too much data though
> the osm files might get too big, and might be too cumbersome to
> maintain them, so I think I will begin with learning some basics
> (or more) about interacting with databases.
>
> Regards,
> Niklas
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