[OSM-talk] Advertising on OSM?

[Nick Burch]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, John McKerrell wrote:
> How about pages with URL arguments? I imagine it would be possible to 
> knock up something that did a query on the database based on the lat/lon 
> that was passed in, then return the placenames near to that lat lon, or 
> contained in the bounds of the map,

We already have something like that, powered by planet.osm:
         http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Where_Are_They

Just pass in the lat, the long, the distance out to search, and that you
just want places, eg:
http://gagravarr.org/cgi-bin/where_am_i.py?lat=51.721033333&long=-1.23853333
3&dist=1000&places

Nick