[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

[Peter Miller]

On 12 June 2011 20:53, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Peter Miller wrote:
>> If this is what you want then it clearly isn't a simple FTP mirror
>
> Let's not overcomplicate things. :)
>
> All that is needed is that someone
> a) downloads all the OS VectorMap District files
> b) unzips them
> c) places the unzipped shapefiles on an FTP server somewhere
> d) copies api.flickr.com/crossdomain.xml and puts it at the root of their
> webserver
> e) job done :)

Fine. There are many people who could do that and with respect it is
not something that ITO can justify time on. We are however working on
something 'more complicated' that might be of interest down the line.

>
> For bonus points, you can create a trivial "find what National Grid tile
> somewhere is in" index, so you can punch in "Kidderminster" and be told that
> it's SO87 (and hence that the URL is
> www.yourdomain.com/SO87/NaturalFeature_Line.shp, or whichever layer you want
> to load). But that's one call to Nominatim and about 20 lines of Perl so any
> fule can do that. Steps (a) to (e) require someone with FTP space and
> bandwidth to spare and I don't have either, or I'd have done it by now.

If someone need £50 sponsorship a year for sufficient FTP bandwidth
then ITO would be happy to respond.



Regards,


Peter
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
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