[OSM-talk] QR code && http://cm.ly

[Russ Nelson]

Petschge on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osm was asking how to create a QR
code.  He wanted GPL-friendly Ruby code to be able to create QR codes
for shortlinks on the main site (thus GPL-friendly and Ruby needed at
the same time).  Since I had already gotten a QR encoder working for
another OSM-project-not-to-be-finished, I thought I'd put it up.

Separately (or, not so anymore) I had also created a Cloudmade-only
URL shortener.  Told a bunch of Cloudmade folks about it, but from
disuse I presume they're not interested.

So, I've bashed these two ideas together, and enabled it to work with
*openstreetmap.org and *osm.org URLs as well as *cloudmade.com.

If you want to try shortening a URL and creating a QR code version of
it, visit http://cm.ly/new.cgi?http://example.cloudmade.com/SteveC.html
or somesuch similar URL.

Hope you find it useful.

-- 
--my blog is at    http://blog.russnelson.com
Crynwr supports open source software
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-323-1241    
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213  |     Sheepdog