SotM 2011 session: Piecemeal Geodata
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 State Of The Map 2011 Session |
A talk by User:Migurski at State Of The Map 2011
A thought provoking talk about some problems with getting started as a technical user of OpenStreetMap data. He particularly highlighted the awkwardness of getting data...
- Unclear rules about use of the API for downloading bboxs (this may have been tackled since his early experiences - See API usage policy)
- Sudden cut off and the implied accusation abuse for heavy users
- Strange locations for Mapnik#Data Sources (in fact coastline shapefiles are now served from tile.openstreetmap.org, which less strange than the old user kleptog URL)
- unhelpful file listing display on http://planet.openstreetmap.org
- more prominent links to country extracts (and should they be on a separate site?)
- Tiled data service
- Metro level extracts. (Looks like he's solving this one himself! : Metro Extracts service)
