Nick Whitelegg wrote: >> 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, > > I was thinking of custom styles - if people wanted to use their own styles > they might want to generate their own tiles rather than use the defaults. A custom means of creating the tiles - yep that would 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. > > Do you mean the ability to edit the roads, or just the POIs? The former > would probably involve installing an editor like Potlatch locally whilst > the latter would be (relatively) easy to implement. Both Which is why I'm thinking a custom slice of the OSM data. The thought at the moment is that councils are often drawing up 'new boundaries' or highlighting areas on their 'local plan', so a means that does not involve highlighters and a scanner seems like a good idea? Certainly a means of running local editing could be very useful, and if that fine detail then feeds back into OSM .... -- 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
