[OSM-newbies] Slippy map with route overlay?

[Richard Weait]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Dave F. <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:
> Richard Weait wrote:
>> Right.  Cyclemap makes this look deceptively easy.  Beautiful and
>> functional with a lot of technology going on in the background.
>>
>> How about something a little simpler than rendering your own map with
>> custom rules.  Rejo made it easy to put a default OSM Mapnik map in
>> your web page, and then overlay your gpx track file using openlayers.
>> This would relieve you of having to do any custom rendering, but you
>> will have to record / create a suitable gpx trackfile.
>>
>> The details are here.
>> https://rejo.zenger.nl/topo/embed-osm-and-track-in-webpage.php
>>
>> An example is here.
>> http://weait.com/content/easy-osm-your-gpx-tracks
>
> Thanks
> This looks like what I might need. I'm going to look into it in more
> detail now.
>
> But could you help clarify a couple of points to get me going:
>
> 1. kml can support ways of different colour/width etc. Do they show up
> as different on the overlay map?

I'm not sure.  I haven't tried this with kml files. Let me know what
you discover.

> 2. For me to test is there a way to get iframe/src tag to accept a local
> file instead of http? eg c:\My_KML_Files/Path.kml?

That would be up to your web server.  And probably way off topic for
this list. ;-)  I'll send you a direct reply.