[Openstreetmap-dev] SVG fun!

[nick at hogweed.org]

Hello everyone,

Am experimenting with starting to develop online AJAX/SVG client for OSM.

I have done a bit of initial "technology proving" and have created a simple 
client which will fetch OSM data for a given location using the OSM API, and 
transform the OSM XML into SVG.

It's available at

http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/svg/svg.xml

and requires Firefox 1.5.

I'll post updates whenever I get anything interesting done with it.

To do next (in approximate order):

- allow user to drag nodes with the mouse;
- investigate XSLT as transformation technology (at the moment I'm using 
JavaScript and the DOM, which in this case seems simple enough anyhow...)
- show roads and paths in different colours as per Freemap and osmeditor;
- communicate local changes back to OSM.

Nick