[OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org

[Tom Hughes]

On 21/02/13 15:57, Jason Remillard wrote:

> It seems like the technical aspects are addressed by hosting them on
> the us OSM servers. The "soft / arbitrary criteria" are judgment
> questions about where the OSM community is at.
>
> However, what I was really asking was given the context I described
> combined with the process as currently defined, would any of these
> layers have a chance of getting approved?

Well that's more or less impossible to say in advance... I didn't read 
the list in detail but I didn't notice anything which sounded like it 
would automatically fail to meet the criteria.

Some of the criteria - like whether it's so garish it makes our eyes 
bleed when we look at it - are of course impossible to evaluate without 
a concrete implementation.

There is of course the question of exactly how much choice we want to 
offer - there is some sort of limit on how many options you can show to 
a user without being completely overwhelming. So layers with a larger 
target audience would obviously better than those which looked like they 
would have a very niche audience.

It's also worth bearing in mind the general mantra that the site is not 
intended as an end user destination - so this should be about show 
casing what can be done with OSM data rather than providing a service to 
a people engaged in a particular sport or whatever.

Much of this is of course just my own thoughts, and at the end of the 
day it would be up to the whole of the operations group to decide.

Tom

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