[OSM-talk] planet.osm powered "where am I"

[Nick Burch]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> Cool stuff. Can you categorize what you want to have? As example "All 
> nodes with tag 'buisiness=baker' or something like that? ;)

Not in this version. It shouldn't be too hard to add, but I'll probably 
end up pushing the tag filtering into SQL (it's done in python for now).

As part of that, I'll probably split out the database code from the 
rendering code. That'll also have the advantage that other people can 
re-use it if they're doing planet.osm sql stuff in python. Anyone think 
that might be handy for them?

> Is there any specific reason why you don't export in OSM-xml format? (I 
> mean, any other reason than "this one looks simplier for roads" ;)

It looked a bit heavy-weight for my needs (which are either a website, or 
something really simple for use by other apps). It shouldn't be too hard 
to support it as well, if anyone would actually find it useful!

Nick