http://cartodb.com has OSM Basemaps (via MapBox)
It can do server side rendering of datasets like fusion tables does. On 18 Sep 2014 00:38, "Bryce Nesbitt" <[email protected]> wrote: > What's the best way to create a global "single point of interest" map, > with OSM? > > > I'm thinking something like this local pay phone map: > > https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/brycenesbitt.j82lj086/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYnJ5Y2VuZXNiaXR0IiwiYSI6ImNFME9IckkifQ.Nd85HRRFP3Jy3gx8nQ3ATA#14/37.8699/-122.2603 > But global, and with all the tags for each node shown when the node is > clicked on. > > > Or this global drinking water map: > > https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?q=select+col3+from+1usHO73s_NDGKOx-2jbj0xtSHuHjxvWVo_2MvX_o&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=41.571877511144756&lng=-83.65702047624372&t=1&z=4&l=col3&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=GEOCODABLE > > But it feels wrong to use Google maps as the backdrop for OSM data, > despite the advantages (the map above has 35,000 nodes many with photos, > and yet it is snappy fast on any browser). > > What's a better way to do this? > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Note: The mapbox map started with an overpass API query. > > The fusion table example was an extract from the planet file, merged into > a fusion table. Google's servers create and cache bitmaps with the POI's. > User clicks look up the matching data. Thus it renders as fast as a slippy > map, but has all the POI's readily available. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk -
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