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

[Nick Burch]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Immanuel Scholz wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Well, a good library to read osm primitives from the server into python
> objects would be great for other python coders.

It doesn't quite use the same schema - I've got the tags stored in their 
own tables, rather than sloshed into a text field. But yeah, it might be 
handy

> But beware: Currently, the most people are either perl or ruby. ;)

Maybe it'll help more people get involved :)

> Would be good for all applications already capable of reading the OSM 
> stuff, as example JOSM ;).
>
> Or the server could use your script as a webservice to serve better search
> items ("baker near 51.235 1.112") ;-)

OK, I'll add it to the wishlist!

Nick