[Xastir] OpenStreetMap?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Rick Green wrote:

> I just discovered via an article on newsforge, the OpenStreetMap project.
>
> Since they're already incorporating all of the TIGER data, as well as some
> other mass sources and massive amounts of individual contributions, it
> would seem to me a worthy goal to find a way to support their use with
> xastir.
>    Has this been discussed before, and I'm just late to the party, or what?

It has been discussed.  Quite a while back.  I believe there were
some concerns with the quality of the data.

I don't recall what format they're doing things in anymore.  If it's
something we support, it shouldn't be hard to use their maps.  If
it's not, then it'd take some significant effort in order to
write/test a new map module for Xastir.

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