Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

2015-01-27 Thread Sanjay Bhangar
Hey hey, Many apologies for the confusion there, then - I think I was half remembering conversations from some time ago where that was the plan. If the plan is just to mirror the OSM data and provide alternate styles more appropriate for India and localized, let's rock on :) I guess we still need

Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

2015-01-27 Thread H.S.Rai
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote: > > The boundaries remain a big reason to have our own tiles. All this takes is > changes to the stylesheet, not the data itself. +1 I am unable to get message which caused this confusion. We intend to have only tile server. -- H.S.Rai

Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

2015-01-27 Thread Ravi Kumar
Create a stylesheet, that will do.. On Tue, 1/27/15, Arun Ganesh wrote: Subject: Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server To: "OpenStreetMap in India" Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2015, 2:12 AM 2. An OSM installation for editing India data. Nowhere

Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

2015-01-27 Thread Arun Ganesh
> > > 2. An OSM installation for editing India data. > > Nowhere on the list has anyone talked about such a separate OSM installation, so we should probably put that idea to rest once for all. We are not going to fork the database. What we are looking for is just a homepage for OSM customized for

Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

2015-01-27 Thread Arun Ganesh
The longer term vision is to have tiles available in regional languages, but first step, our own tileserver! Unless maybe, someone has some good ideas on how we can have Hindi or Bengali maps without taking the trouble to set up our own tileserver. This is probably the time to speak up. On Tue, J

Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

2015-01-27 Thread Sajjad Anwar
Hello everyone, Just to piggyback on what Sanjay posted and from my experience having setup and managed few clones of OpenStreetMap infrastructure - are we clear on why we are doing this? I think we are mixing two different approaches here - 1. An OSM tile server specific to India data. 2. An OSM

Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

2015-01-27 Thread Arun Ganesh
> How are we going to keep data in sync between this instance / fork and > main OSM? > No, we are not going to do something silly like fork the osm database. We only replicate it and host customized map tiles with the visual changes we want. My suggestion is to just maintain a daily updated copy

Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

2015-01-27 Thread Sanjay Bhangar
Hey all, Sorry to be the old goat, but can't continue to have my silence being inferred as agreement :/ These are the same tired questions i have been asking since the beginning, but have not received a satisfactory answer, so shall ask them again. How are we going to keep data in sync between t

Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

2015-01-27 Thread Shekhar Krishnan
The OHM server is very low traffic as it is a niche project. For that matter, so is OSM India. If we need a dedicated box, I'll get one via Topomancy or Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education in Mumbai. The question of hosting should not delay us. w.r.t. Paul Norman's point, agreed that what

Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

2015-01-27 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Shekhar Krishnan > wrote: > >> Johnson has access to the same server where OHM is hosted, known as >> "hackercoop", which is a community server provided courtesy of Topomancy >> (which is me, Schuyler Erle

Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

2015-01-27 Thread H.S.Rai
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > > Doing what they are doing on an openstreetmap-based domain > would be highly misleading. Why it could be misleading. OSM's current data will be used with custom style. -- H.S.Rai ___ Talk-in mai