[OSM-talk] How best to create a "single point of interest" online map with OSM data?

[Barry Hunter]

http://cartodb.com has OSM Basemaps (via MapBox)

It can do server side rendering of datasets like fusion tables does.


On 18 Sep 2014 00:38, "Bryce Nesbitt" <bryce2 at obviously.com> wrote:

> What's the best way to create a global "single point of interest" map,
> with OSM?
>
>
> I'm thinking something like this local pay phone map:
>
> https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/brycenesbitt.j82lj086/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYnJ5Y2VuZXNiaXR0IiwiYSI6ImNFME9IckkifQ.Nd85HRRFP3Jy3gx8nQ3ATA#14/37.8699/-122.2603
> But global, and with all the tags for each node shown when the node is
> clicked on.
>
>
> Or this global drinking water map:
>
> https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?q=select+col3+from+1usHO73s_NDGKOx-2jbj0xtSHuHjxvWVo_2MvX_o&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=41.571877511144756&lng=-83.65702047624372&t=1&z=4&l=col3&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=GEOCODABLE
>
> But it feels wrong to use Google maps as the backdrop for OSM data,
> despite the advantages (the map above has 35,000 nodes many with photos,
> and yet it is snappy fast on any browser).
>
> What's a better way to do this?
>
>
>
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> Note: The mapbox map started with an overpass API query.
>
> The fusion table example was an extract from the planet file, merged into
> a fusion table.  Google's servers create and cache bitmaps with the POI's.
> User clicks look up the matching data.  Thus it renders as fast as a slippy
> map, but has all the POI's readily available.
>
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