[OSM-talk] Where Did You Edit

[yvecai]

On 04. 08. 11 05:37, Ian wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 3, 2011 9:49:18 PM UTC-5, Josh Doe wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Stephan Knauss
>     <o... at stephans-server.de> wrote:
>
>         What would be the coolest way to zoom? I thought of a slippy
>         map with transparency above the regular tiles.
>         Others mentioned presets like continent/country.
>         I could also imagine to let you set an arbitrary bounding box
>         based on a zoom level.
>         eg you say you want to see zoom level 13 and then you get a
>         bounding box that you can place over the area of interest.
>
>
>     Coolest would definitely be transparent tiles, as it's the most
>     versatile. You (or others) could then implement presets for
>     countries/states, take advantage of OpenLayers shift+click+drag
>     zoom functionality, etc.
>
>
> You may want to consider using Google's Fusion Tables for this. Their 
> map view will generate heat maps out of millions of points quite 
> quickly. Plus, you could easily add a selection to narrow the maps 
> down by user. I don't think you need to display Fusion Tables tiles in 
> their API, either. Technically it's easy to add to OpenLayers but 
> their terms might say otherwise.
What about OpenLayer clusters 
http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/strategy-cluster.html ?

Yves
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