Is there a method for creating your own layer of information, either as an open “instance” of stuff such as tourist routes (openlayers is this slippy map stuff right ?), or as a private/corporate layer, e.g. where all our stuff is, etc.
I’d like to run my own OSM compliant instance, with a modified set of objects, using OSM proper as the underlay (would ultimately be nice to tie routes to objects so if the road changes so does the route).
This is obviously a massive issue, there are endless applications. Is there any discussion about this kind of stuff and how one might achieve this.
If you had your own features marked with a tag like “mark_lesters_own_feature=yes” you could select and show it from my server as easily as you can now show, let’s say “highway=bus_stop”, and without you or me doing anything for the system.
I am sure that Mapnik could be used as an engine to this kind of flexible services. Unfortunately rendering transparent tiles seems to be the only solution that people consider.