[OSM-talk] OSM maps on Multimap site

[John McKerrell]

Hi

Thought you might like to know about a method for getting the OSM map  
tiles onto the Multimap.com public site. Steve and Nick have both  
mentioned it on their blogs (including screenshot):

http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=216
http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/?p=111

The method used is basically to create a bookmarklet - a bookmark  
that contains JavaScript code - that alters the map on the page to  
have buttons for mapnik and osmarender maps, my post about it can be  
found here:

http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2007/05/30/maps-maps-maps-coming-soon/

It's quite fun to try the OSM map tiles out in an alternative  
interface, and using an alternative API to the openlayers API.

A few other things you may be interested to know about Multimap - we  
recently launched Ordnance Survey 50k raster maps on the site, these  
are visible at zoom factors 13-15 in great britain. You have to hover  
over the map button in the top left then click on the box that pops out.

Also we recently launched the Multimap "Open API", this is basically  
a version of our API that you can sign up to use for free:

http://www.multimap.com/openapi/

Just thought people on here might like to try it out, you can also  
use it with mapstraction if you'd specifically prefer not to be tied  
to our interface. There's no explicit documentation on incorporating  
the OSM maps with it yet but I'm sure I'll write something soon.

Sorry if this has turned into a sales pitch but I hope you'll agree  
that seeing the OSM tiles on the site makes it worth it ;-)

John