[OSM-talk] Questions about importing data for University of Vermont campus

[yvecai]

On 28. 01. 11 21:25, Andrew Guertin wrote:
> First, some background. The University keeps quite a bit of very
> detailed geospatial and other data about the campus, as you might
> expect. However, this data is spread around various departments,
> databases and non-database files, and formats. By far the largest
> problem for the web team working on our new map is collecting this data
> and getting access to it in such a way that we can keep it up to date.
> Any technological implementation issues, in whatever framework we decide
> to use, are comparatively minor.
>
> However, assuming we have the data issues worked out, we do need an
> implementation. Our most likely choice for this (mostly at my urging) is
> OpenLayers with an OpenStreetMap base layer. To do this, we need to get
> the data into the OpenStreetMap database.
This is a good thing to do.
However, and additionally you can also choose to set-up your very own 
database. And this could also be something useful for avoiding your data 
collection issue in the future, and a great tool for the University 
administration.
> What are our options in the case someone adds valid data that we don't
> want displayed on our base map tiles?
> For example, suppose someone adds every single emergency phone
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency%3Dphone) on campus to
> OSM (there are a lot), but we'd prefer to have that data in an overlay
> on our map so it can be turned on and off. Would we be forced to render
> our own tiles?
Here the answer is certainly render your own tiles. Or make an overlay 
layer that completely cover the osm basemap within university limits.

Yves