[Osmf-talk] Country-level hosting of addresses overlay layers and more detailed imagery for mappers (was: Consultation on fundraising strategy)

[Simon Poole]

Am 22.05.2023 um 21:52 schrieb Emerson Rocha via osmf-talk:
> *TL;DR: by providing hosting when is unlikely to have alternative, 
> both increase awareness OpenStreetMap Foundation as public good at 
> country level, yet on the same action, provide more detailed content 
> to mappers (e.g editor-layer-index options)*
>
For non-vector layers (provided by google/OSM style tile servers, WMS of 
WMTS servers) it suffices to add corresponding entries to the Editor 
Layer Index https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index where the 
configuration will be eventually be picked up by most editors except 
JOSM (you can add information for JOSM here 
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Maps). I would expect that any 
legally usable, more or less current imagery source should have an entry.

For services that are not available in an useful projection (aka one 
that is supported by iD), proxying them via a MapProxy instance works 
very well (any adding the proxy URL to ELI), and for example SOSM has 
been doing this for over a decade. Sure the OSMF could do this, but the 
visibility it provides is very low.

As to a general open data catalogue, I would suggest that this is too 
much work, which even governments struggle with. What would be useful in 
multiple ways is a catalogue of 3rd party data in use in OSM for a 
specific area, see 
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/rethinking-the-import-catalog/99309/6

Simon

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