[OSM-talk] Build your own osm.org (was Re: New technology ...)

[Lauris Bukšis-Haberkorns]

If you are so confused with how map works it not much of a work to use any
JavaScript library to embed OSM map in any page to look and act how you
like it. I might be missing something but I don't quite don't understand
where is the problem here?

Lauris


2013/7/22 Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk>

> Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>
>> Why not do the same here? Get a few people together who want the zoom
>> bar/old stylesheets/whatever. Build a power user's mapping site. Use PHP
>> or
>> whatever language you're comfortable with. Start small - just an instance
>> with the features you really need. But it could grow to have oodles more
>> tile layers, talk to the public OSRM API for routing, be tightly
>> integrated
>> with JOSM, all the stuff that we can't expose on osm.org for QC/scaling
>> reasons but which would work fine on a more niche site. And if you have
>> good
>> ideas, some might filter back to osm.org, just as JOSM features
>> occasionally
>> pop up in P2 or iD.
>>
>
> I'm already on that path :) Have OSRM and Yours working along with the
> legacy mapserver stuff.
> That is what I've been working through for the first part of this year,
> and now have most of the key elements running on local machines, but I'm
> NOT happy with the way leaflet is working when it comes to
> tablet/smartphone. So it's either fix that, or switch to an alternative
> that does perform better?
>
> Added to that ... I've just had a 'complaint' from a web hosting customer
> who has spotted the 'new' style and was confused as he was used to simply
> clicking on the scale bar for a quick zoom in. Again holding 'shift' down
> does not work on his tablet, so he is stuck with clicking the + several
> times ... which is now on the other side of the screen from the map insert
> ... I've disabled the 'directions to' for the time being until I can work
> out an alternative which matches! Perhaps I do have to switch back to
> Google :(
>
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