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Hi,<br>
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FYI, in order to promote the OSM background <a
href="http://www.papou.byethost9.com/maps/OpenLayers_Vector_fast.html?">I
have shown this map</a> to various organization, saying that<br>
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<li>their POIs can be introduced in the OSM map itself</li>
<li>if a Web site maintains a <a
href="http://www.papou.byethost9.com/maps/Red_Cross/POIs.txt">simple
POI text file like this</a>, other sites can include that POI
list in their own map, mixed with their own POIs (for example,
map of blood donation centers combined with public transport and
car sharing to access the centers)</li>
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<p>(1) raised absolutely no interest<br>
(2) interested one organization: three weeks later, they had
pirated the idea and made their own POI map based on Google Maps
(a big leap off their former PDF file ;-)).<br>
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<p>While roving about for this, I came across a site <a
href="http://www.click2map.com/">Click2map</a>. <br>
I asked them if they could support OSM and their reply was the
usual, most polite<br>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div>We currently only support Google Maps tiles.</div>
<div>We may in the future propose also OpenStreetMap tiles.</div>
</blockquote>
But now, I wonder if those people could not be interested in using
OSM not only as tiles but also as the POI database itself. I'm
letting anyone versed in POIs to ponder over this idea, and maybe
design some scheme and present it to <a
href="http://www.click2map.com/">Click2map</a> and possibly
others.<br>
Having such POI providers affiliated with OSM would of course be a
definite plus for OSM.</p>
<p>Cheers,<br>
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<td>André.</td>
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