[OSM-talk] Static maps using the new export function

[Tom Hughes]

In message <8634cccecf1f29c15265434c22eb5a85 at acrewoods.net>
        Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:

> I can't see an obvious way to do this, maybe I just need to dig around in
> the code behind the export tab, but is it possible to already do something
> similar to the Google static maps feature, i.e. allow people to just
> specify a URL in an img tag and have the static image with optional marker
> automatically created?
>
> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/
>
> If not, how much work would it be & how hard?

There is a way to do it, as a little exploration of the export feature
would doubtless show, but I don't want people doing that sort of thing
as it is not designed to support that sort of load. At the moment
there are no technical restrictions, but if it becomes a problem then
there will be.

See the discussion started by Steve the other day about how we don't
want to support this sort of thing because of the resource requirements
it would impose.

> Sorry if this has come up already, it came up in a conversation with the
> owner of www.suttonactive.co.uk as a good opportunity to swap OSM maps in
> to replace a work-in-progress Google feature.

Is an OpenLayers slippy map pointed at our tile server not better there?

Tom

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