[OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2010/2/28 Tirkon <tirkon33 at yahoo.de>:
> But this is exactly rhat, what I am asked i.e. by Wikipedia users. At
> present they draw their maps for every geographical article (states,
> regions, districts, towns, municipality, urban quarters) and the
> sub-chapters of these (water, public transport, railway etc etc) and
> special interests (cycling, on horseback etc) by hand. This is over
> and over again the same work only with a different assortment. It
> would be really helpful, if it was possible to extract automaticly
> these informations nearly live from OSM.


it is already possible, you can get these things through the XAPI or
by selecting them locally from the complete data (or an excerpt).

cheers,
Martin