[OSM-newbies] Navigation with Online Maps

[Richard Welty]

On 5/1/14 8:50 AM, Esben Stien wrote:
> "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> If what you want to map is so transient, I don't think OpenStreetMap is
>> the right place to put it. Data isn't pushed from the main server to
>> mirrors (that would require a budget), so if a feature is very
>> short-lived, mirrors might never know it had been there.
> What about traffic information?, if f.ex a road is closed due to a car
> crash?
>
> We don't have a layer of information where such data can be transferred
> more quickly?
>
for this kind of data, i recommend setting up a separate database with some
sort of overlay system. most existing data consumers are not going to update
frequently enough for such transient data to be of any real value.

richard

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