[talk-au] Ways to map boundaries that won't go into OSM

[Ben Kelley]

Hi.

A project I have been thinking about for a while is creating a map of
Anglican (church) parish boundaries in Australia.

In some sense these are like admin boundaries, but the source of the
boundary is not easily verifiable. While the resulting map would be based
on OSM, the data itself probably does not belong in OSM.

Any thoughts on a tool set for how to do this?

I'm after ideas for a way for people to edit this data, ways to store it,
ways to display it online, and ways to make a printed map (if necessary).

The source data in some areas can be written, like "The boundary runs north
from the end of Railway Parade until it crosses the creek." The person
editing this map would use OSM to draw the boundary (making it a derivative
work), possibly for display as a layer on top of OSM data.

If I needed to stand up a server to store edits, that's a possibility. Is
it possible to integrate existing editing UI tools with a different back
end, or would this require people to use JOSM?

In the past some people have done similar using Google's tool set, but then
the resulting maps are derivatives of Google's base map, which creates
problems if you want to reproduce that map outside of Google Maps.

 - Ben.
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