[OSM-talk] wikiproject rail?

[Mark Simpkins]

'OSM should be the centre of a whole free mapping ecosystem - not try
to be the entire ecosystem itself.'

I agree whole-heartedly with this. If there is one thing we can be learning
it is that we can create separate data repositories and as long as they all
have a nice API to get the data in and out then we can collect and build
greater stuff with it.

after all transport route and timetable information is not just consumable
on maps after all.

Open Social Data anyone? If anyone has a data requriement, but maybe not the
tech knowledge to set up a DB / service then let us know. I am happy to help
anyone design / set up stuff like this.

Cheers,

mark.


On 10/4/06, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>
> Quoting Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net>:
>
> > On Tuesday 03 October 2006 23:08, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> >> As was said in an earlier post today if we can get a package to allow
> >> people to deploy a read-only, rendering-orientated version of OSM on
> their
> >> own servers, and use an API like openlayers, all it should take to set
> up a
> >> mashup is the ability to install some software on a server, tweak a
> config
> >> file and - perhaps more advanced but necessary for Google mashups too -
> >> some JavaScript coding.
> >
> > That's far too much work for me, and completely incomprehensible to some
> > people who I know got interested in OSM through me :-)
>
> Is that a problem, though?
>
> I mean, yes, it's probably somewhere between too much work and
> incomprehensible for me too (especially as these sort of things are
> generally tested solely on a Linux distribution of some sort and
> squeak out various errors if you have the temerity to use them on OS X).
>
> So there's a need for a newbie-friendly map mashup service using OSM
> data. That's not to say it needs to be hosted on or developed by
> openstreetmap.org.
>
> OSM should be the centre of a whole free mapping ecosystem - not try
> to be the entire ecosystem itself.
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
>
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