[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

[Peter Miller]

On 12 June 2011 20:36, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> 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. :(

Thanks for the explantion.

So.. in an ideal world would you like to be able to select the content
required (ie 'woods' or 'roads') and the bounding box and then get the
relevant ways back as shape files or some other similar format... A
bit like the API for OSM which must pretty much do that.

If this is what you want then it clearly isn't a simple FTP mirror and
it is something we may be able to provide. Lets bottom out the
requirement and we can then respond.

Regards,


Peter
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
>