[OSM-talk] FourSquare and OSM

[Chris Hill]

On 02/03/12 22:07, Frans Thamura wrote:
> i wish OSM can provide like what GMAP API can :0
>
> rather using this model.
>
> API wrapper to TILE will be interesting
>
I think you are confusing what Google call their API with what OSM call 
our API. They are not the same thing.

What Google call their API is JavaScript to display a map on a web page 
as a series of tiles. OSM use open tools like OpenLayers or Leaflet to 
do the same job.

OSM API retrieves and updates the data that is later used to create the 
tiles. Of course you cannot access the data Google has.

These are very different things. If you want to display OSM map tiles on 
a web page take a look at OpenLayers or Leaflet. You can see more about 
this in http://switch2osm.org/

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Cheers, Chris
user: chillly