[OSM-talk] OpenLayers May Dump in Ka-Map/OpenLayers

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 01:03:29PM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> http://london.freemap.in/may.html
> 
>  * Blue Marble Next Generation/Global Mosaic data, precached through zoom
>    level 8
>  * OpenStreetMap May data dump, *segments only*, using a very simple
>    rendering of Highway tags and name tags. 
>  * Ability to click on/near a segment, and see information about that 
>    segment or segments in the sidebar -- including a direct link to the 
>    OSM API. 
> 
> Data for OSM is served off the Freemap server, data for Satellite is
> served off the OpenLayers.org server. Caches are built on the fly, so
> the first time you click through to an area, you will see significant
> lag in rendering, but this will go away after this first render.

The actual data behind a segment is now served by OSM as well -- when
you click a node, a proxy-script calls out to the OSM API to get node
information, which is then formatted and delivered back to the client.
So, any data you see in the sidebar on the 'specific node' clicks
(either via a click on a list-of-many, or by default if you only select
one segment) will be accurate up to the second to the OSM data. However,
the rendering will/can still be behind.


> Comments other than the above known issues? Thoughts on whether this
> type of interface is usual?

s/usual/useful/, naturally.

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer