On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bear in mind that OSM is a community such as we are, with its own > habits and ideas. As I happen to be one of the more active ones in Hungary. :-) > The idea of OSM is to have everything in one databse Nope. You will not see there wikipedia articles or photos. ;-) What you may see are pointers to external resources, but many of these resources doesn't exist (like something similar to panoramio which hosts geocoded images in vast amounts). > You can also propose a new features to be added to the official OSM > database schema. It is not a question of OSM database, it's a question of services based on the database, especially those related to slippy map with mapped external content. OSMF doesn't have the resources to get this done, and they even struggle under the load of their tile server being used by the general public. In fact you're advised against using their tile server and you are advised to create one for your own. For example this is one point where WMF _may_ be able to help, but it's a high demand service. > OSM has actually its own API which is free to use: I do not think Wikipedia should get deeply involved in _editing_ the db and firing shitloads of queries at the API will surely help Wikipedia getting banned from using it. ;-) Whatever we do it should be based on the minute diffs and our own processing. But really I do not talk about the db, I talk about it's representation (tiles) and it's interface (slippy map with additional geocoded layers). g _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
