[OSM-talk] drat of proposal

[Andy Deakin]

Hi,

You could investigate the Map24 MGI (e.g. [1]) information in case it 
stimulates any further thoughts. (there are lost of other documents on 
the navteq developer site, just search for MapTP MGI). I'm not condoning 
copying their api!

Of particular interest, they allow markers, polylines etc to be added to 
the static map. Also, each map has a 'session', so that you can simply 
request to move north, and all the other features which you just 
requested on the map will still be visible if you pass that session key.
Using a session also allows very long GET requests because in theory the 
requests could be split up.

Also, they allow soap requests. Is this something worth considering?

Finally, It is sometimes useful to get back information with the image 
about its location. (e.g. lat,lon of top left and bottom right, and 
zoom, or meters per pixel etc) so that another layer could be overlaid, 
or extra markers placed on top with another script etc. Could this data 
be set in headers, or if sessions are supported with another request.

Andy

[1] http://developer.navteq.com/getDocument.do?docId=3457


Paweł Niechoda wrote:
> Hi OSM community
>
> I am participating in Google SoC 2009 and now I am working on proposal for
> one of OSM projects: Static Maps Api - 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Applications_2009#Static_Maps_API
>
> I wrote down draft of application: 
> http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df2wg5ch_30htttnwf3&hl=en 
> <http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df2wg5ch_30htttnwf3&hl=en>
> Please look at it and comment it. I would be grateful for any feedback.
>
> Paweł Niechoda
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