[Openstreetmap] more distributed ideas

[Immanuel Scholz]

Hi,

while we are speaking of distributed servers, what about having servers
for specific types of objects only?

As example, someone could want to host a server with only tracks with the
tag "class=river" or "class=coast" and areas with "class=sea",
"class=ocean" etc... making this server an repository for landscape
information. Applications that specialize on landscape issues (freemap?)
could use this server for faster access to these objects.


What my point is: In the future, there will be some needs of types of
objects not related to an Open"Street"Map, and it may be good, if we have
cache servers, that can handle faster access for applications, that are
really not interested in some kind of data types (e.g. landscape stuff).

The alternative is to force this people to use a completly different
server or a completly different system, although both user groups have a
common basis of data types (maybe both server would want to deliver
objects with the tag "pub=BEER" ;)


There are already discussions about object classes that should or should
not be included in OSM for various reasons.

Ciao, Imi.