But actually we already have a Dev.osm server API that people use for samples, this maybe could be called OpenImportMap.org?
and a WMS can be created in the same way that mapnik is, and it could be traced over by the community on the main OSM API. Cool, Sam On 3/27/10, SteveC <st...@asklater.com> wrote: > As you've probably heard the Ordnance Survey is going to open some data next > week. We don't exactly know what data or what license it will be under but > there's a reasonable chance it won't be importable in to OSM because either > the data will be low scale or released with an incompatible license. > > If that's the case then I propose we start, separate from OSM, an OpenOS > project. I basically see it as either a clearinghouse for putting up > converted formats for the data and/or a full OSM stack, mapnik, potlatch and > all for editing and fixing it. Because as Russ Nelson keeps saying, datasets > without a community are dead. > > I propose that until we know it's compatible, usable and so on in OSM that > no OSM resources are spent/used on something like this. Thus, I've bought > the domain openos.co.uk to host it and set up a google group which you're > welcome to join to help discuss what to do if/when we get some data. > > I think this data will need a community, tools and editing and who better to > build all that than people from OSM? > > Thoughts? > > http://groups.google.com/group/open-os > http://openos.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
