[OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Sat Jan 14 20:06:32 GMT 2012


Russ Nelson wrote:
> Lester Caine writes:
>   >  yet there seems to be no way to create secondary databases of
>   >  information which can be used in parallel but separately hosted.
>
> Yes, we need*more*  OpenStreetMaps from which you can fetch different
> types of information. For example, any data which is externally
> maintained and updated really*shouldn't*  be imported into OSM. It
> should be made avaialble via an OSM-compatible protocol and data
> format, yes. But it shouldn't be editable. Kinda like a
> "closedstreetmap.org".

I'd make a slight distinction there ...
Data provided by third parties would be nice to use as secondary layers much as 
we do in the editors. Making those available to switch on and off generally 
would be useful. But what I am talking about is something that can add secondary 
information to existing OSM objects, and is edited in exactly the same way as 
the main map database. Certainly noe a 'closedstreetmap.org', but rather an 
'extrastreemap.ore' and a 'historicstreetmap.org'. The key thing being to access 
current map data in parallel with material that we are not allowed to upload to 
openstreetmap.org

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