On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Jochen Topf <joc...@remote.org> wrote:
> Importing is difficult enough to do properly and I think updating that data is > even more difficult to do. I think it would make more sense for some kinds of data (particularly, the more "volatile" ones) to have map servers that can gather data from multiple data servers (i.e. OSM and whatever the imports would otherwise have been from) and combine it to present it as a single data stream (probably in an OSM-defined format). Similar ideas have been in use in bioinformatics for some time now; for example, see http://www.biodas.org/wiki/Main_Page (DAS is Distributed Annotation Server). Perhaps we could get ideas from them. __John _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
