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 'image' wiki page. Cheers, Sam On 4/24/10, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 done rapidly. > > For example one "application" was playing back the buses passing a bus stop, > the application used the data file speeded up and went ping or beep and to > play a small tune. > > 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 > top. Anyone have any knowledge of what they are doing or how they are doing > it? > > I did notice that 9 out of 10 computers were mac notebooks of one type or > another so we probably aren't talking terribly technical stuff here, but if > it could be done using OpenStreetMap as a basis that might be worth > following up as they do seem to be good at hype. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks > > Cheerio John > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca