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

[Paweł Niechoda]

W dniu 16 lipca 2009 18:02 użytkownik Andy Deakin
<andy.deakin at pcmend.net>napisał:

> Hi Paweł,
>
> Looks great! Just a few comments:
> 1) Perhaps add shadow to attribution or background opacity to attribution
> area, as it can be hard to read when on top of country names.
> 2) For small images (e.g. 200x200) the OSM image is quite large in relation
> to the image. Perhaps it could be smaller for smaller images.

Yes, I am thinking how to do it. I wanted to create easy way of choosing
logo which is added to the map. Now osm logo image is taken from the file
which is put onto server, so logo can be easily changed by replace that
file. Scaling down logo image is not good idea, it would lost his quality.
So mabye it should be two version of logo image, normaln size, and small
one. I will think about it.

>
> 3) An optional scale bar could be useful.

Yeah, it is great idea, I didn't think about it before.

>
> 4) I know lat & long/lon/lng has already been mentioned rather than
> center=, google choose to use ll=... for coordinates. It's short and sweet.
> 5) It would be nice to specify what logo/url is used for each point.
> 6) It would be nice to change the thickness of paths.
> 7) It would be nice to specify different colours for each point/path?
> 8) I am sure you have this in mind, but caching output images would be very
> useful. Some users are likely to hardcode a static image into their website,
> and exactly the same image may be requested many times.
>
> Thanks for ideas, I am starting to implement all of them.

>
> Keep up the good work!
>
> Andy
>
> Paweł Niechoda wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> 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/><
>> 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.
>>
>> Regards
>> Paweł Niechoda
>>
>>
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