Ahh I will have to go looking to that API then. I'm also thinking about adapting a thing I did to grab google maps for the google map server, before someone kindlly pointed out how not legal that was.
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Ugo Taddei <[email protected]> wrote: > forgot something... I think tilecache can proxy OSM data (with a mapnik > layer or so), but I might be wrong. > > Ugo > > Jody Garnett wrote: >> >> Cory (and old udig hacker) was the last person to get excited about this >> :-) >> >> As far as I can tell open street maps has a nice API and it should be a >> couple days work to pull data in... making a nice renderer (or converting to >> geotools features may be a bit more fun). >> >> In anycase good idea - let me find you links: >> - http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ >> >> I also found this in my searching >> - http://earthissquare.com/2008/03/25/open-street-maps-in-worldwind/ >> Harry Bullen wrote: >>> >>> I remember back in the summer someone mentioned that they had created >>> a uDig plugin that would pull data from google maps. However it's not >>> really legal to redistribute it. So I was looking at >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/ and they are actually very similar to >>> google maps but with out licensing restrictions. So it may be >>> possible to adapt that plugin to work with openstreetmap. Which I >>> think would be a big turn on for people to use udig. >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) >> http://udig.refractions.net >> http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel >> >> >> > > > -- > Ugo Taddei > > Fraunhofer Institut Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssysteme (FhG IAIS) > http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de > Department Knowledge Discovery - IAIS.KD - > Working Group Spatial Decision Support > http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/kd.html > phone (+49)2241-14-2184 fax (+49)2241-14-2072 > Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > -- Harry William Bullen IV _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
