[OSM-talk] SoC 2009 - static maps API - prototype version

[Jochen Topf]

Hi!

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:18:35PM +0200, Paweł Niechoda wrote:
> My name is Paweł Niechoda and I am a student who is involved in Google SoC
> 2009.
> I am working on project: OSM static maps API.
> I know that asking end-users for feedback is always the best way to improve
> application. So I am doing it.
> Here you can find the description of the prototype version of the API:
> http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~pafciu17/
> and examples how API works.
> Please feel to send me any comments or sugestions for new features.
> By doing this you would help me a lot with my work.

Looks very promising!

Two small comments:
* I suggest to allow giving center by &lat=...&lon=... instead of (or
  in addition to &center=...) Thats the format used most widely and it
  has the advantage on not relying on the order of the longitude/latitude
  coordinates.
* type for the Tiles at Home-Map should be "osmarender" (not the "a").

I am a bit concerned about the format of the points and paths. Its very
hard to see anything if all seperator characters are commas. Maybe have a
look at the Well-known text format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_text)
as another option. Might be a bit easier to read, on the other hand having
spaces in URLs is also bad. Your choice. :-)

Jochen
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