[Openstreetmap] Map formats?

[SteveC]

* Petter Reinholdtsen (pere at hungry.com) wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if I'm the only one here, but I thought it was about time
> to get a discussion started.

Sorry for the delay replying. Was moving house'n'stuff. Yep, right now
we are the only two here.

Have a look at openstreetmap.org, updated it a lot.

> I'm interested in community driven map data collection, and very
> interested in the formats used for storing such maps.  I was looking
> into electronic map formats a few years ago, and did learn some things
> about the Norwegian map format SOSI.
> 
> The source of the SOSI standard is the national Norwegian mapping
> department, and their standardization web page is available in
> Norwegian from <URL:http://www.statkart.no/IPS/?template=standard>.
> 
> There are links to the international standardization effort ISO/TC 211
> Geographic Information/Geomatics, <URL:http://www.isotc211.org/>, as
> well.  I assume this effort are relevant for us.

yes, the format stuff is going to be important.

Even more critical is versioning. In a wiki you can version on the page
name. We can't version on the streetname or location of map data since
its all liable to change. I'm guessing having a unique key is going to
be the only way out. :-(

> Are there anyone reading this mailing list?  Are there a web based
> mailing list archive available?  If not, I suggest using gmane.org as
> the mailing list archive.

yes, the archives are accessible from the mailing list link on
openstreetmap.org

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/