[OSM-dev] Slippy map way forward -- OpenLayers and/or Mapstraction?

[Nick Whitelegg]

Now we've got the new renderer up it seems a good point to ask the 
question about how to take the slippy map forward, to support annotations 
and the like. It seems that there are a combination two possible 
approaches we could take -- OpenLayers (which I've already experimented 
with) or (in view of the fact that it will talk to OSM in the future and 
intends to support georss etc) Mapstraction wrapped around OpenLayers 
and/or the existing slippy map.

Any views on which way to proceed (particularly from Steve) as this is one 
of the OSM things I would like to focus on over the large amount of free 
time I will have over the summer (the others are improving the renderer, 
GPS map support, and perhaps expanding the search facility).

Nick