[OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

[maning sambale]

This too is my dream, by agregating physical features done by
volunteers, we will eventually gather a very rich geospatial info than
any other mapping agency.  For fairly complete areas, I believe it can
now be used for planning.  But as I understand (correct me if I am
wrong), OSM is for mapping existing features.  On the other hand,
there are existing tools that can be used to extract relevant info
from the database to be imported to other geo-softwares.

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
<ajrlists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Lat night I attended a steering group meeting for my local Connect2 [1]
> project in north east Birmingham [2]. One of the things that the group could
> benefit from is rapid response on mapping so that it can discuss route
> options for the new cycle/walk routes to be built under the project. OSM is
> the logical tool to use for this process and I'm keen to show what we can do
> with the OSM data and the OSM platform to support the work. At the moment
> everything is done as overlays on Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 mapping, not an
> ideal way to integrate ideas into the existing infrastructure.
>
> This brings me to the point though. Currently we map physical features as
> they exist and in some cases the alignment of known construction, what we do
> not do is use OSM as a planning tool. What are people's views on this? It
> seems that OSM is an ideal platform for enabling communities to develop
> their own planning, without having to rely wholly on the GIS department of
> their Local Authority, it also makes publishing ideas so much easier without
> the encumberment of the OS licence restrictions.
>
> Anyway I'm going to give it a try here and come up with some logical tags so
> that the data does not get rendered by default unless a custom style sheet
> is deployed. But maybe the easiest was is to have the renders ignore data
> that carries a specific tag. planning= perhaps?
>
> I'd welcome some feedback.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
> [1] www.connect2.org.uk
> [2] www.connect2birmingham.org
>
>
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