[OSM-talk] Software Freedom Day
Ulf Lamping
ulf.lamping at googlemail.com
Sun Sep 6 08:12:05 BST 2009
Robert (Jamie) Munro schrieb:
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> Ulf Lamping wrote:
>> Please also note, that it's really easy to switch from OSM to Google
>> maps (and back) if you're using openlayers. But you have to rewrite your
>> javascript code (completely?) if you want to go from the Google API to OSM.
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> In fact, you can show OSM tiles in Google JS, for example on this site:
> http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?St._Aldate%27s_Church
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> There's even a bookmarklet (OSMify) you can run to add Mapnik, OSMA and
> Cycle layers to most 3rd party Google maps sites:
> http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2007/12/31/new-version-of-osmify-bookmarklet/
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> I've just tested it on the Software Freedom Day site, and it works well.
> The only site it doesn't work on is Google's own main maps site.
Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of this and IIRC it wasn't possible
when I first tried it (about two years ago?).
Anyway, you still have this ugly "Powered by Google" on the screen and
you're not using open source software (or am I wrong again with this
assumption ;-)
Regards, ULFL
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