[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

[Richard Fairhurst]

Peter Miller wrote:
> ITO are probably not the best people to set up maintain simple mirrors
> of existing content. Are there not 100 sites where a mirror could be
> set up and maintained? Why is the OS site not sufficient anyway?

The OS site
a) offers download-only access behind an e-mail confirmation wall
b) stores the data as really chuffing great big .zips which would seize 
up any browser that tried to load them (even if it could unzip them in 
the first place)
c) doesn't have the requisite (six-line) crossdomain.xml file to allow 
Flash to load from it

As ever with OSM, there are indeed 100 sites where such a mirror could 
be set up and maintained, and it only needs 1 of these 100 to be set up, 
but somehow getting from the "let's all talk about it for weeks" stage 
to the "1 person doing it" stage is extraordinarily painful. :(

cheers
Richard