[OSM-talk] Using a dedicated API to host imports only

Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
Fri Oct 1 06:22:57 BST 2010


Hi,
Does anyone know if or when the OSMF would adopt a policy to use a
dedicated API that could be used as a dedicated data storage
warehouse.   So then a copy of the latest available data (from the
source national/regional/local) government data, can be stored in it
it.


This way, the api data layer can be rendered as a mapnik layer, so
then people can choose to eithor trace directly from it, or download
.osm file from a small area and manually copy what they like into the
main osm api.


Ideally, this imports API would need to allow people to directly
inject the database with data (all CCBY) and list the attribution
source). and smaller changes could also be permitted. (but telling
people that the licence of this api is different)



Thanks,
Sam


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