On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote:
> Sixty percent of Washington State counties have open data portals with GIS > data. Washington State laws (Open Records Act) requires that this data be > open to the public. Road data from most of the counties seem to be much > more current than TIGER data. I've been creating background tiles for > nearby counties but I would like to find a way to share the information > with others. Since tiles use a lot of disk space, I've been looking for > solution other than using my laptop. One promising solution is Mapbox > Studio's vector tile service. Unfortunately the ability to provide > background tiles is not yet available. If anyone from Mapbox has an update > on when, I would be interested in hearing from you. > > My questions to the community are: > * Is it valuable to have county tiles available as backgrounds in > our editors? > * Counties use all sorts of formats for name and road > classifications. Should we produce generalized background or a detailed > background with different colors and line type with a key? The key would > have to be on the wiki as far as I know. > * The data is usually updated monthly. How often should we try to > update the tiles? > * Is there a good cost effective solution to serve these tiles? > * If the solution is to use a cloud based service, is the US Chapter > willing to pay for the service? > > Washington State is the only state with counties providing open data. If > this works for Washington, it could work for others. If this approach is > adopted, a scaleable solution will be required. > Hopefully that last paragraph was a typo, because there are tons of counties providing open data. :) If someone wants to work with me to get a tiling/caching system going please let me know. OSM US already runs a caching tile server with several layers for folks in the US to use. I'm happy to add more (and make adding more easier).
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