[OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

Peteris Krisjanis pecisk at gmail.com
Thu Mar 11 10:01:40 GMT 2010


For one of OSM GSoC'10 projects I would like to suggest "unofficial
guide" for mapping. We all know that there is a little haos in tagging
(some says it's good, some says it bad), but so far biggest confusion
comes from not how to tag things, but how to tag complex situations or
how to even map complex situations (and that's without even taking
micro mapping into account).

What we need is nice guide where is said - basic roads are maped like
this, crossroads created this way, this must be connected with that,
etc. It would also create a nice little base for futher experiments
and ideas. There's nothing wrong with seeking out alternative tags or
ways of mapping, but this at least should be documented somewhere.

More or less everyone who would take this task would have to go trough
all archives, look for discusions and conlusions (and even if there is
no conlusion, writing down all sane opinions would help greatly) and
write it down in casual user manual style.

Just a idea, but I think worth to explore,
cheers,
Peter.

2010/3/11 Graham Jones <grahamjones139 at googlemail.com>:
> Mike.
> Thank you for your suggestion.
> I do not know where the apache licence ref comes from.  This year's
> application says GPL with a note saying some is PD.
>
> Graham
>
> On Mar 11, 2010 7:36 AM, "jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com"
> <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> My GSOC  suggestion :
>
> Get the potlatch running without any Adobe software, use gnash.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010#Porting_of_Potlatch_to_use_FLOSS_tools_and_viewer
>
> Also why does google list OSM as being apache licensed?
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/streetmap/about.html
> Preferred license: Apache License, 2.0
> Since when?
>
> I am putting all my new code under the affero GPL 3.0.
>
> mike
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Rajan Vaish <vaish.rajan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks Graham, > >...
>
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