[OSM-talk] The long tail - lowest common denominator

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:28:40PM +0100, Nick Black wrote:
> On 7/7/06, Erik Johansson <erjohan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 7/7/06, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:27:43AM +0100, Andy Robinson wrote:
> >> > Your list principally covers the use of data contributed to, held in 
> >and
> >> > distributed by OSM. One other point that came up on #OSM IRC yesterday 
> >was
> >> > the need to ensure that OSM can utilise and respect the licence of 
> >other
> >> > available data that would enhance OSM. The TIGER import type data out 
> >there.
> >> > Chris Schmidt was interested in the MassGIS data which has its own 
> >licence.
> >>
> >> Alternatively, OSM needs to take a position where this data is not
> >> suitable for upload directly to OSM, and should be stored in a seperate
> >> repository, possibly also overseen by the OSMF (or possibly by OSGeo, or
> >> some other similar organization). It's a consideration to make, not a
> >> requirement.
> >
> >
> >Well I'm sure there is a market for easy access to extra data. E.g.
> >things like shoreline inclusion on maps done by openstreetmap, like
> >IoW[1]. Or perhaps just vector (vmap0?) backdrops for the streets, I
> >for one would much prefer a vector backdrop over landsat.
> 
> Why?  VMAP is really crude.  It would be cool to let people choose
> though, like select Landsat or Vmap as a base layer.

I'll get that set up in the OpenLayers version of OSM later today.

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Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer