[OSM-talk] SoC 2009 - static maps API - prototype version
Paweł Niechoda
pawel.niechoda at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 00:57:26 BST 2009
Thanks for respond!!
W dniu 16 lipca 2009 17:36 użytkownik Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org>napisał:
> 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/<http://dev.openstreetmap.org/%7Epafciu17/>
> > 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 ¢er=...) Thats the format used most widely and it
> has the advantage on not relying on the order of the longitude/latitude
> coordinates.
>
Yeah, you are right, it is nice just to specify center point by giving
&lat and &lon params. So I added that possiblity, now there are two ways,
you can
use either &lat and &lon or just ¢er.
>
> * type for the Tiles at Home-Map should be "osmarender" (not the "a").
>
Done
>
> 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. :-)
>
I have had a look at Well-known text format, for sure it would be nice to
support it. As you mentioned it looks nice.
I will remember about it. Now I think there
are some others more important issues to work on.
>
> Jochen
> --
> Jochen Topf jochen at remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298
>
>
thank you again for comments:)
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