Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Was thinking that it might be an idea to develop an application to allow > people to set up their own local OSM-based sites for very local areas e.g. > 20x20 miles - in the UK, that could include, for example, the New Forest, the > Lake District or Manchester. I was thinking of the scenario where people > might not want to set up/be able to set up (due to their hosting) a full > PostGIS database, but could instead run a Mapnik-based site off shapefiles - > which, if I remember from tests, is efficient enough for a small area. > > Does this sound a good idea?
Being able to extract a defined area would be useful rather than having to use the whole planet dump. But would dumping that as shape files really be useful? A set of local copies of the relevant tiles could be useful, but personally being able to run a fully editable map for say a local council - information from which could then be passed back to OSM - would be useful. They can then add private local data over the top which is allowed? I've just progressed from postcode to LLPG address data, so a nice map is the logical follow on ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk