[OSM-talk] getmap in osm mode

[Paul Norman]

On 6/17/2015 10:41 AM, Daniel Koć wrote:
>> getmap works with so called public static image APIs, which are 
>> provided by Mapquest and Google. AFAIR, OSM does *not* provide such 
>> an API - at least at last time I checked. But, I've read that OSM now 
>> provides direct routing. If they would also provide an static image 
>> API, ... ;-)
>
> So what about that "public static image APIs" - do we have it (or will 
> we some day)? 

OSM doesn't provide APIs except the editing API*. The routing on osm.org 
is from third-party providers using OSM data. I believe MapQuest Open 
has a static image API like MapQuest.com, except using OSM data 
globally. That would probably be very easy for them to implement, as it 
would basically reuse their existing MapQuest code.

There is the /cgi-bin/export endpoint on the tile servers, but that is 
not suited for an application like this.

* And arguably tile.osm.org
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