[Openstreetmap] Freemap with slippy map!

[Nick Whitelegg]

>> Would like to announce the latest version of Freemap-OSM, the OSM client
>> showing features (towns, pubs etc), roads and paths.... now with slippy
map!
>>
>> See
>>
>> http://www.free-map.org.uk/osm/

>Text labels seem to have problems with the tiled slippy map interface.
>Pan up a bit from the default location, and look at the tile with the
>pub (nice beer there, but the food can take ages to come) in Hammer
>Vale. It looks like you need to look for text points of interest to the
>left of / above the bounding box for the current tile, to make sure that
>you render that in as well (assuming text is rendered to the bottom
>right of a point of interest)

Yes, that will need to be done... will put on the todo list. Not been to
that pub, though passed it while walking... lived in that area for 15 years
or so, Fernhurst and later Liss to be precise.

>Also, the A3 seems to disappear in the tile north of Hammer Vale (with
>the car park on it)

That's probably related, in that that segment of the A3 passes through the
tile but does not start or end in it.

The other issue is speed... I would like to put this on the dev server
which will speed things up considerably, but there appear to be some Debian
package problems with installing the necessary PHP packages at the moment
(Steve... maybe you could do a fresh re-install of sarge?)

Nick