[OSM-talk] (no subject)

[Timothy Fintan Langner]

Dear Robert & Andy

Thank for your replies. I will follow up the links and read the information 
and try and get my head around how I might be able to get it to work with my 
site.

Kind regards

Timothy Langner

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Hart" <bathterror at gmail.com>
To: "Timothy Fintan Langner" <timflang at btinternet.com>
Cc: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] (no subject)


>> Is it possible for me to take a live feed from OpenStreetMap's servers 
>> and
>> use that in another program? That program would serve the maps over the 
>> web,
>> along with my own, out of copyright, historical map data.
>
> What do you mean by "live feed"? You can utilise map image tiles from
> osm and if you like overlay them with extra data, or make requests for
> OSM data through the published API for processing on demand on your
> server.
>
> See: http://www.free-map.org.uk/freemap/index.php for an example of
> overlaying external data on a map, and
> http://www.informationfreeway.org/ for using map image tiles from a
> different server.
>
> What you can't do is receive live updates from the server as our data
> changes. Grabbing the weekly planet file is the best bet in that case.
> Rob
>
>
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> -- 
> Robert Hart