Cheers Andy. Will do. Cheers,
Stu On 30 Dec 2011, at 15:56, Andy Robinson <ajrli...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Stuart, nice work. Write-ups like this are worth putting on the wiki somewhere so that they can easily be found by others at a later date. Cheers Andy *From:* stuart lester [mailto:stules...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* 30 December 2011 11:18 *To:* talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* [Talk-gb-westmidlands] ShareMap to show OSM data Hello, Following on from Andy Mabbett's request about easily working with OSM data I decided ot have a bit of a play around with some of the tools out there. I concentrated on ShareMap to try and bridge the gap between technical use of OSM data and non-technical access. The main case is where someone wants to render some OSM data over a map and embed it in their own web page. ShareMap is far from perfect (in fact I found it frustrating at times) and you cannot get fully away from a bit of technical usage. Anyway I tried to recreate the gritting map: http://sharemap.org/public/Grit%20Map This is set up as a public map, so you can simply go on and edit to see how I put it together. The technical part is using the XAPI calls to get the priority 1 and priority 2 datasets - this is how I did it: 1. Create a new Container to import the OSM data into 2. click on the "import form OSM" button 3. This is really annoying but you can draw a rectangle to set your bounding box, but the clicking is a bit flaky at times I found, you sort have to do a slow double click 4. You can choose common features to import, but the gritting priorities are a bit specialist so I used the custom XAPI area 5. I entered: http://open.mapquestapi.com/xapi/api/0.6/way[gritting=priority_1][bbox=-2.29209872095745,52.25813715698189,-1.3733670623948984,52.683940414232836] as you can see you can actually define your bounding box here if you get frustrated with the draw a box function (as I did) 6. Once it has (hopefully) found some features (again I found this a bit hit and miss) you can import the features (this puts the raw data into the new container) 7. I then renamed the container to Priority 1 8. I then clicked on one of the lines on the map to change the colour and apply that to all the lines in the Container 9. Saved the map This was the repeated for priority 2 roads. You can then embed the map as a thumbnail, with a link, as a static image or as a flash object (following the code inthe help page): *<head>* *<script* type="text/javascript" src="http://sharemap.org/js/sharemap.js"*></script>* *</head>* [...] *<body>* *<div* id="mapBox" style="width:300px; height:300px;"*>* *</div>* *<script* language="JavaScript"*>* insertInteractiveMap('*public/Grit%20Map*','mapBox',300,300); *</script>* *</body>* You can see it is not plain sailing, but someone could potentially start to use it to create some simple maps for their own site.....I'm not sure. The main thing is understanding the tags you want to import and using the custom XAPI calls if you need to.
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