[OSM-dev] Re: [OSM-talk] dojo-style AJAX widget for OSM?

[Tom Carden]

On 31/05/06, nick at hogweed.org <nick at hogweed.org> wrote:
> Tom (and all),
>
> After the planet.osm stuff I've alluded to in another thread, my next focus of
> interest will be on the JavaScript side, implementing functionality which
> will allow walkers in Freemap to annotate underlying OSM maps with path
> blockages, mad cows etc; this will obviously converge quite strongly with
> some of the JS ideas being discussed here. Any thoughts on the way forward I
> should take maybe incorporating Mapstraction?
>

Mapstraction just sits on top of Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and Microsoft
Virtual Earth and doesn't implement any functionality of its own to
speak of (OK, it does polylines and basic projection itself, but
that's all).

I would ignore Mapstraction for now if I were you and code the
functionality you need yourself.

OpenLayers might implement more things you can use right now though,
it's well worth a look.

Tom.