On 08/18/2011 03:23 AM, Jaak Laineste wrote:
See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenMetaMap
When I look at statement "I put my dataset online using OpenMetaMap API"
I immediately react "why invent a new standard?". The linkable datasets
could have a variety of APIs drawn from existing standards (e.g.
shapefiles, kml, web feature servers (WFS)). You'll get a more robust
system if you leverage an existing feed rather than requiring data
providers to invent one just for osm.
The proposal needs to address the end-user editing experience. When
user sees a feature on a map that is "wrong", how do they identify where
the data came from, and understand the chain of actions needed to apply
a correction? You're talking about rather major additions to every
single osm editing tool.
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I see the huge advantage of this approach is the licensing. As you
write "/OSM would not become derivate from any external databases, only
the rendering would be/". There are many many good datasets that are
free to use, but not compatible with OSM's licenses.
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