[OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands

Ted Mielczarek ted.mielczarek at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 16:57:20 GMT 2009


On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Jukka Rahkonen
<jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi>wrote:

> Why not to store this kind of datasets as own layers in the database?  DEC
> data
> could be on its own, non-editable layer, but if there's something that
> people
> would like to edit those features could be copied or lifted to anothet, OSM
> layer.  That would make DEC updates easier as well, they would just update
> the
> DEC layer.  The same approach would suit other data of similar nature as
> well,
> like TIGER or cadastrial data.
>

If you can't edit it it shouldn't be in the OSM db. It's easy enough to set
up your own map render with any external data you want.

-Ted
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