[Openstreetmap] What I'm working on

[Jo Walsh]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:42:48PM +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> 2. Looking at the possibility of an "AJAX" (look on Google) and SVG
> rich-client based mapping interface, again initially for Freemap but with
> possible application to OpenStreetMap as a whole.

Given it takes off, i think it'd be a massive win to implement the
Google Maps API on top of osm / freemap / mapserver / whathaveyou.
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/
Chasing the updates would be a pain though, and this could wait until
their API reaches v1.5 or 2.

For pre-caching tiles, it's worth looking at Anselm Hook's work for
civicactions, http://maps.civicactions.net/ , a google-maps-nature UI
implementation. It bypasses projection problems by just using WGS84.
which looks terribly at high latitudes - google's UK maps look subtly
wrong to me, and good luck not being laughed at in Finland.


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