[Openstreetmap-dev] Re: [Openstreetmap] more distributed ideas

[Tom Carden]

>
>>Are there Ruby already bindings to an SVG library which supports
>>textpaths?  Does anyone on the list have any experience of writing
>>interactive SVG apps that run in a browser?
>
> I do have experience writing AJAX/DOM scripting (i.e. Freemap) and
> conceptually I am attracted to the SVG/DOM/AJAX approach to interactive
> web
> apps. It aligns quite well with what I'm doing in Freemap.
>
> I am certainly prepared to volunteer to look into this and develop some
> code if people would like to take me up on the offer. What I would
> probably
> do is call the 0.2 API through AJAX and then convert the OSM XML into SVG.
>

Go for it, I'm not even remotely precious about it, and it would be good
to see how easy it is to get start.  I suspect drawing will be trivial,
maybe even possible with just XSLT (though good luck with projection, as
usual).

The thing I'm really interested in is whether SVG will make any of the
interaction issues easier - adding/deleting/annotating, panning, zooming,
etc.  Anyone know of a tiles interface written in SVG to get us started?

Also, is javascript capable of sending the right things to OSM to
authenticate with the API (are you already doing this with Freemap Nick,
and if so is it in OSM's svn?).

Thinking outloud,

Tom.