[OSM-talk] Osmarender 3.0

[Etienne]

On 9/28/06, Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 28 Sep 2006 10:01, Nick Hill wrote:
> > That is really neat. It shouldn't be lost on most people but just to
> > make the point;
> >
> > Osmarender runs entirely in a web browser. Collects _RAW_ OSM data,
> > converts to SVG and displays with zoom and panning.
> >
> > No server side rendering or extra data transformation necessary.
> >
>
> Incidentally would there be scope for a browser-based (AJAX/XSLT)
> "osmarender
> browser"?


Yes.  Shouldn't be too difficult.


i.e. user searches for location by place name or lat/lon, and gets
> an osmarender map of their area.


Links from the search page.

Then, by navigating using the arrow keys
> (slippy-style map would probably be too slow for SVG, at a guess) they can
> move around.


Some problems with making tile boundaries seamless, but performance probably
wouldn't be too bad as all the rendering is done by the client, the only
server load is the API gets.



> Or would this hit the API too much?
>
> Nick
>
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