[OSM-talk] Multiple Layers for OSM

[John F. Eldredge]

Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> wrote:

> 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.
> > >

If someone is hosting their own layer, doesn't that mean that it isn't being hosted by the OSM database itself?  This sounds like more of a rendering issue than a back-end database issue.

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