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

[Jonas Krückel]

Maybe I'm wrong, but it looks to me like the attribution is not  
correct, you must also mention CC-BY-SA!

Jonas

Am 17.07.2009 um 01:57 schrieb Paweł Niechoda  
<pawel.niechoda at gmail.com>:

> 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 Go 
> ogle 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.
> 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 &center.
>
> * 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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