On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Xan <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a pain. I think the usefulness of this feature could launch OSM as > one killer apps of the web. Thinking of other maps of the web (free or not), > the user is passive: he/she has no choice of displaying. Display what user > exactly wants could change the view of web mapps. > > Commercial application over OSM or personal servers doing that could be > good, but maybe the best thing is the "officiality" of own OSM of this > class.... The corps are corps and don't move for "common good" of people. > > I understand cpu and memory limitations of this. But certainly there is no > real limitation. OSM developers are good and I think it's a thing they could > do... For the other hand, yes, the data is available: you could download all > the tiles or use josm (or any other program) and see what you want. But > don't forget that most of users of web has no idea of tiles, josm, .... I > think they want interfaces. This is the reason of my idea. > > I know how to find busstop near X point, but for OSM outer user, he/she does > not know (or thinking for example seeing the rivers of UK for scolars). > > Transforming OSM to a service could provide more popularity of the project.
Sure being able to turn certain features on and off would be great, but for this to work the map needs to be rendered in the browser rather than being served static images. I think this is what Cartagen (http://cartagen.org/) aims to do. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
