[Openstreetmap] Freemap-OSM (alternative OSM client) now showing points of interest!

[nick at hogweed.org]

Would like to announce that Freemap-OSM (http://www.free-map.org.uk/osm), my 
OSM client which uses Freemap code to present OpenStreetMap data in the 
Freemap style, now shows points of interest such as villages, pubs, hills, 
viewpoints etc.

Freemap-OSM now has the following features:

* displays different types of OSM segment in different colours/line 
thicknesses, to distinguish between main roads, minor roads and paths;

* displays points of interest such as pubs, hills, villages;

* range of different scales;

* user can move to any latitude and longitude.


The following classes of points of interest will show up on Freemap-OSM with 
an appropriate icon:

pub, hill, farm, viewpoint, church, railway station, mast, car park,
point of interest , caution, amenity, waypoint, tea shop, restaurant,
campsite, bridge, tunnel, barn, hamlet, village, small town, large town.

The syntax for tagging (via the API) is:

<node tags='class=XXX; name=YYY' lat="lat" lon="lon"/>

where XXX is the class (above) and YYY is the name.

e.g.
<node tags='class=pub;name=Red Lion' lat=... lon=.../>
<node tags='class=village;name=Fernhurst' lat=... lon=.../>

Will hopefully add something to the wiki about this.

Nick