[OSM-dev] OSM clickable POIs - implementation?

[John McKerrell]

On 6 Jan 2008, at 14:48, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> On Jan 6, 2008 3:44 PM, Dodi <dodi at moonbase.sk> wrote:
>>> You could also just display the POIs as icons on the map so users  
>>> can
>>> click on them, as in:
>>> http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~kleptog/pois/pois.html
>>>
>> or you/we can do it as described on
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenLayers_Dynamic_POI
>
> Heh, other than the database backend being MySQL I think we're
> describing the same approach here :)
>
I couldn't quite gather from the wiki page, but just thought I'd  
mention, definitely use bounding box rather than point based query,  
and ideally something tile based with morton numbers for real speed.

John