[OSM-newbies] Opendata group Analysis

[Andrew Errington]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:44:36 john whelan wrote:
> They had a meeting in our city hall today.  What they appear to be doing is
> taking a list of locations in a spreadsheet format such as drinking
> fountains then overlaying them on top of Google maps using an icon.
> Moderately lightweight stuff that needs little understanding of the data
> but can be done rapidly.
<snip>
> Thoughts?

Without knowing exactly how the demo was prepared I suggest you look at 
OpenLayers for general overlaying tools and techniques and GPSVisualizer[2] 
for a quick way of overlaying a spreadsheet list of points onto a background 
map (you can choose OSM as the background).

Best wishes,

Andrew

[1] http://openlayers.org/
[2] http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/