[OSM-talk] Advertising on OSM?

[Lars Aronsson]

Jochen Topf wrote:

> That is not going to work. Google only looks at the page occasionally
> and can't cope with dynamic content.  Google doesn't pull in the page
> each time somebody looks at it to figure out the right adwords. That
> would immediately double your load on the server when for every request
> from somebody you'll get another one.

I know pretty well how Google ads work, but I don't know how best 
to combine this with a slippy map.  That's why I'm asking if we 
can think of a way to make it work.  If I had a working method 
already, I would present it.

Perhaps one way to address this problem is to include the words in 
the URL.  Look at a typical article URL from CNET, 
http://news.com.com/Three+Intel+quad-cores+coming+Monday/2100-1006_3-6147614.html?tag=nefd.top

What happens if I change the words in the "top directory" level? 
http://news.com.com/Look+what+Lars+is+doing/2100-1006_3-6147614.html?tag=nefd.top

I get the same article, of course.  It doesn't matter what I write 
there.  It's only a trigger for search engines that index the URL 
text.

Could we write some Javascript that after ten seconds of no 
panning or zooming does an XML-RPC call to retrieve useful 
keywords for the current coordinate, and refreshes the page with 
a new URL containing the retrieved keywords?  That would be
http://www.openstreetmap.org/Link%C3%B6ping/index.html?lat=58.4&lon=15.6&zoom=10

and under the slippy map, it would read "The map shows Linköping".

This is just one idea.  Could it work?  Any better ideas?


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