[OSM-talk] German Supreme Court uses OpenStreetMap

[simon at mungewell.org]

> Actually, their black circle and blackened buildings stand out a lot
> better than the little icon in your sample, so their choice has
> its advantages.  Could OSM show a particular place in a way more
> comparable to what the Bundesverfassungsgericht did?
>

It should be noted that they are serving a static image which they have
edited.

If you would like to serve your own version of the slippy map (just a few
lines of HTML which call the OpenLayers javascript) you can place
additional items as overlays to the maps.

These can include:
1) PNG images used a markers.
2) Polygons/Circles.
3) OSM routes/ways (although these must be hosted locally or proxied
locally as they have to come from your own http server).

You could blacken the building outline by overlaying it's way ontop of the
slippy map.


If you are unable to host your own slippy map for some reason, maybe the
nice people at the OSM slippy map could provide a number of marker styles
(a '&mstyle=2' for example in the URL) to highlight in different ways.
This could be PNGs of a flag, a small circle, a large circle, etc...

Cheers,
Mungewell