[OSM-newbies] Text adventure game-like interface to openstreetmap?

[Kelly Jones]

"Slippy map" provides a great graphical interface to openstreetmap.org's data.

Is there a similar text interface? An example based on:

http://tile.openstreetmap.org/16/36054/19270.png

might be (assuming you're in the middle of the tile-- the values below
are made up):

"You are at latitude <whatever>, longitude <whatever>.
The Hotel Berna is about 100 feet to the east.
Enskilda Gymansium is about 200 feet to the east-northeast.
Kammakargaten Street is about 50 feet to the south
Tegnergatan Street is about 100 feet to the north
[... and so on ...]"

The idea would be you could "walk" through the world at a constant
zoom factor of 16 (maybe 17), like you do in text adventure games. Of
course, you could "teleport" anywhere, since typing "n" would only
move you one tile to the north (maybe even less).

Is there a URL similar to the above that returns text? Example (doesn't work):

http://text.openstreetmap.org/16/36054/19270.txt

would tell me what would be mapped in this tile, but return just a
list of ways and named nodes (nodes w/o a name tag are probably not
interesting except for creating ways?), instead of actaully generating
the map?

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