Hi, OSMAustralia is awesome, and it's exactly the kind of simple user-centric website that I think is useful for end-users.
However, I am not sure of what are you suggesting me. How do you see "uniting/combining/linking/organizing" all those hundreds of small projects without creating a new fresh repository ? In any case, we're on the same track here. I do not want to duplicate any effort, and do not feel like developing the NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrom. Sami On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 12:13 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Sami Dalouche <sko...@free.fr> wrote: > > What I see is hundreds of small projects or individual people creating > > ... > > > So, I am currently thinking of starting a complementary project to OSM > > See the problem here? IMHO if you want to put some effort into this, > the best thing you could do would be to try and > unite/combine/link/organise all those "hundreds of small projects" - > rather than just start another one. > > My experience has been that for part of the world, there is a > different project somewhere producing the maps you need. For example, > in australia, it's really easy: > http://www.osmaustralia.org/downloads.php > > In the case of Garmin, complication seems to also arise from the fact > that earlier Garmins required special software (like Mapsource) to > load the maps onto the device. Newer ones (like my Oregon 550) are > trivial: simply download a .img file, and copy it into the right > directory. > > So, I think there need to be more services of this kind: websites that > regularly (eg, every week or more often) generate .img files of a > given area, in a number of styles (eg, hiking, cycling, driving...) > There is already a central registry of these kinds of sites: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download > > But it could be improved. > > Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
