[OSM-talk] Street guide built from OSM data, looking for feedback

[john whelan]

I like the idea of listing the points of interest.  I've been looking
at Maperitive and the find-home command provided you know the value of
the filed such as name its very easy to locate them. However you don't
need a web site to do this you can run on a local map to the machine.

Cheerio John

On 21 July 2010 02:43, Edward Betts <osm at edwardbetts.com> wrote:
> I wrote some code (in Python) to generate a very simple street guide using data
> from OpenStreetMap.
>
> Code here: http://github.com/EdwardBetts/streetguide/
>
> Sample output here: http://edwardbetts.com/streetguide/
>
> I just have five samples, all in London: Upper Street, Oxford Street,
> Regents Street, Covent Garden and Brick Lane.
>
> It works in Firefox and Google Chrome, but not yet in Internet Explorer. The
> output is very rough. You should see a map of the area on the left and a list
> of Points Of Interest on the right. The list of POIs includes nodes and ways,
> if you click on the name of a node it'll show you the location on the map. I
> show extra tags on the node or way. Nodes link to their page in the
> openstreetmap browse interface, I will add the same for ways.
>
> Does this look useful, has anybody else done something similar?
>
> I plan to filter out some more of the more borrowing nodes and ways. I'm
> mostly interested in shops, restaurants, amenities and stations.
>
> Things I should add:
> - Use Nominatim to search for street names and let people generate new guides.
> - Find nearest station for subway entrances.
> - Don't include house number if street name is not included.
> - Improve the HTML and CSS.
>
> If you want me to see some more samples send me the bounding box you want, no
> need to send it to the mailing list. Like this: -0.10849,51.53161,-0.10047,51.54661
>
> I'm interested in ideas about how to better organize the data, or for any
> other suggestions.
>
> --
> Edward.
>
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