[OSM-talk] Bikely OSM?

[Steve Bromwich]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Andy Allan wrote:

> On 9/21/07, Steve Bromwich <osm at fop.ns.ca> wrote:
>> I'm not so much looking for custom tiles as a way to do overlays. Since
>> this is an unofficial bike map I don't think it's appropriate to pollute
>> the database with what I consider usable streets for biking, particularly
>> since there are one or two (literally) bike lanes in downtown Halifax
>> already.
>
> Sure. But if you were to store your data somewhere, I'd suggest in a
> clone of the OSM db. Then you can get a potlatch interface for people
> to scribble their routes on (you could use the osm tiles as the
> background instead of yahoo imagery). Then you'll have all your routes
> in .osm format, and it's trivial to render them to additional tiles
> with transparent backgrounds and overlay them on the normal tiles.

Hmmm... That's an interesting approach. My plan was to use tiles from 
openstreetmap and then overlay with a javascript doodle (a la bikely); 
since Halifax isn't completely mapped I'd like it to pick up the latest 
tiles as they're mapped, and that seemed the easiest way. Being able to 
edit routes in potlatch would be very handy, though - do you (or anyone 
else) know if there a way to have the OSM tiles as background (instead of 
the satellite view) so that routes can be overlaid on top that way?

> Of course, this might well be overkill. There's probably a georss or
> similar to describe routes that openlayers will handle, but I don't
> know about that.

Well, I'm still at the handwavey stage anyway, so I'm looking for ideas 
and pointers - thanks for the help!

Cheers, Steve