[OSM-dev] OSM clickable POIs - implementation?

[Nick Whitelegg]

I would like to try and add clickable POIs to OSM (as already exists on 
Freemap) so that when you click a village, for example, some info and its 
Wikipedia link comes up.

The best way to do this would seem to be to implement code which takes a 
lat/lon (or Mercator coord pair) and returns the nearest POI node to it. This 
could be turned into an API call, as could a similar method to find the 
nearest way to a mouse click. Do people think this is a good idea?

Nick