[OSM-newbies] Fwd: OSM Development

[SteveC]

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> From: Richard Barnes <barn0357 at umn.edu>
> Date: July 10, 2010 4:48:57 PM GMT+02:00
> To: SteveC <steve at asklater.com>
> Subject: Re: OSM Development
> 
> Feel free, and congratulations!
> 
> Further investigation of the OSM API implies that it may be possible to obtain many of the features client-side, but merge/update public data.
> 
> ~R~
> 
> On 07/10/2010 05:36 AM, SteveC wrote:
>> Richard I'm on honeymoon and at the annual conference do you mind if I bounce this to people with the time to help?
>> 
>> On Jul 7, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
>> 
>>   
>>> Steve,
>>>    This is Richard Barnes. I've been hired by Engineers Without Borders, University of Minnesota as part of an initiative to find a mapping solution for EWB-USA.
>>> 
>>>    My work includes identifying an existing solution which meets requirements, identifying a solution which can be modified to meet requirements (and helping with said modifications), or designing a program from scratch.
>>> 
>>>    OSM certainly comes in at the top of the list of solutions I've looked at, but there are several key features missing from what I've been asked to create. Notably, EWB has 300+ projects world-wide, primarily in developing countries. Some of the data these projects generate could be made public (roads, schools, shops, towns, et cetera), but other data is only useful to a project (potential well sites, survey points, et cetera) or private (instances of malaria cases, metadata regarding the health of homes surveyed in an area). Further, the ability to group any sort of data and share the grouped data in a controlled fashion (shared access to private data) with other partners (NGOs, review boards) would be necessary. Grouping would also be used to enable downloading of the raw GPS data at future times for use in the field.
>>> 
>>>    At present OSM doesn't seem to provide grouping or access sharing features. I've taken note of the warnings against people who provide suggestions without helping. So, there's a question. Are these sorts of features, or some subset of them, in-line with OSM's vision or should they be implemented elsewhere? If a subset useful to the both of us could be implemented, I have the time and resources to commit to that effort.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your time,
>>> Richard Barnes
>>> 
>>>     
>> Steve
>> 
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Steve

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