[OSM-talk] Multiple Layers for OSM

[Jochen Topf]

The layer rendering thing in first position has nothing to do with what I am
suggesting. That can already be done with current technology. But the second
one has (People want to host their own layers). :-)

Jochen

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:20:29AM +0200, Mike Dupont wrote:
> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:20:29 +0200
> From: Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>
> To: Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org>
> Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple Layers for OSM
> 
> Well I support this idea and see it as long needed, it is also the top
> voted item on the ideascale, http://fosm.ideascale.com/ to be able to
> render as layers. The layers could be used also to split up different
> licensed data as well.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> wrote:
> > In the recent discussion about the the imports in France and DWG governance
> > the issue of multiple "layers" in OSM came up again. If we had some kind of
> > layer system we could stage imports through them instead of adding all data
> > to the OSM database directly and this would help finding problems etc.
> >
> > It turns out there are many other interesting uses of multiple layers but also
> > many technical and social questions around them. I have written down my thoughts
> > on this subject in a (rather lengthy) blog post:
> >
> > http://blog.jochentopf.com/2012-09-23-multiple-layers-for-osm.html
> >
> > If anybody wants to comment, I think this mailing list is the right place.
> >
> > Jochen
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