[OSM-talk] Application idea - "OSMSiteMaker"
Nick Whitelegg
Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
Fri Dec 21 10:12:08 GMT 2007
>Being able to extract a defined area would be useful rather than having
to use
>the whole planet dump. But would dumping that as shape files really be
useful?
>A set of local copies of the relevant tiles could be useful,
I was thinking of custom styles - if people wanted to use their own styles
they might want to generate their own tiles rather than use the defaults.
>but personally
>being able to run a fully editable map for say a local council -
information
>from which could then be passed back to OSM - would be useful. They can
then
>add private local data over the top which is allowed.
Do you mean the ability to edit the roads, or just the POIs? The former
would probably involve installing an editor like Potlatch locally whilst
the latter would be (relatively) easy to implement.
Nick
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