[Talk-ca] Opendata group Analysis

2010-04-24 Thread john whelan
They had a meeting in our city hall today. What they appear to be doing is taking a list of locations in a spreadsheet format such as drinking fountains then overlaying them on top of Google maps using an icon. Moderately lightweight stuff that needs little understanding of the data but can be

Re: [Talk-ca] Opendata group Analysis

2010-04-24 Thread Gregory
On 24 April 2010 16:44, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: The reason I've posted in both CA and Newbies is we don't appear to have the same capabilities in OpenStreetMap unless I'm missing something and their applications use Google Map as a background image and sticks the icons in on

Re: [Talk-ca] Opendata group Analysis

2010-04-24 Thread Sam Vekemans
And then for the encore, use the Google Earth OSM poi kml overlay and customize it to only list 'amenity=drinking_fountain' and use the GE OSM kml map overlays with 25% transparent Yahoo imagery in the background. If that doesnt impress, might try singing solo. The links are hidden on the