Hi thanks for the quick response Well actually my mail is in response to one of the ideas published here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Applications_2009#Static_Maps_API The basic idea is to have a Static API like Google's static API<http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/> : I think what this essentialy means is that the content shall be delivered in the form of an image file ... well the advantage that I see for a web designer would be that it would be much lighter option. For the implementation: I had thought that we would have to dynamically create an image from xml but we could also use one of the available rendering engines to create the image. I am sorry for not being specific i was just thinking out loud as i was not sure of the project requirements but your response has helped me in understanding it.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Milo van der Linden < milovanderlin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Amit! > > Nice to hear from you. > > amit sethi wrote: > >> >> I am a student interested in applying to Gsoc idea : Developing a statics >> map API for openstreetmap like the one for Google map. >> > Could you define "static map api? In what way will it be different to > openlayers? Do you have any details? > >> The major work involved : >> Can openstreetmap data be converted to GIS / GDAL >> > Yes; you can convert .osm to shapefiles and from there pull the shapefiles > through ogr > >> Real Time conversion of openstreetdata to image files ( MapniK is one of >> the tools that can do this . Can it be used for OSM data.) >> > It is already. Mapnik is the render engine of choice used by openstreetmap. > All it would need to know is when and where data has changed in order to > trigger the rendering of tiles > >> If openstreetmap data can be converted to GIS why not deliver it through >> GeoDjango >> -- >> > open GIS = www.osgeo.org and geoDjango is not yet a project of the open > geospatial foundation. For now, the openstreetmap api and the tileservers > are serving data; aren't they? Please be more specific as with the term > "GIS" do you mean OGC standards? Do you mean desktop GIS? > > A-M-I-T S|S >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> dev@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >> >> > > -- A-M-I-T S|S
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