[OSM-talk] 'Mashups' using OSM

Mikel Maron mikel_maron at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 7 16:31:37 BST 2006


> The question I have is - where should those annotations be stored? In view 
> of the (sensible) focus on the OSM server itself for editing rather than 
> retrieval, it's my view that individual 'mashup' sites would store these 
> annotations in their own databases, not in OSM. Any comments on this?

GeoRSS [http://georss.org/] is an ideal format to connect the data in a mashup db (or other mapping layer) with the wider web.
For instance, OSM is publishing GeoRSS of recent updates, and that is mapped on Landsat at http://brainoff.com/osm/change/

OpenLayers does, or will soon, support GeoRSS. So all you do to create the map markers is generate a GeoRSS feed, and load
it in OL.

If any GeoRSS is particularly useful for the OSM db directly, it won't be hard to create tools to map GeoRSS onto the OSM API,
or perhaps directly in the API. I'd definitely be interested in following up on this.

-Mikel








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