On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:30:33 -0400, Dustin Spicuzza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> there was at least a standard way to parse/store the data that would be > useful to have. I'd certainly be interested in helping with such a > project. The API is based on http and very simple, so there is not much to implement for loading data. The xml-format is also very simple. You can use the Xerces SAX-C++ -api here. For data-exchange the XML-format as used by the API and JOSM has become the standard as it is very universal. Using JOSM for generating simple maps for debugging saves a lot of time. > Whats the best way to facilitate users downloading places by name, as > opposed to specifying coordinates? Here you can have a look at the "namefinder". It is used for this purpose by the online-map, josm, TS and others. > Does OSM store street number data... ie, if I wanted to find the > coordinates for 123 Any St, does OSM support this? There was much fruitless discussion over the best format to store these but after a while we started simply mapping this insted of arguing with the "Karlsruhe Schema". It is done as an experiment to gather experience how best to map all the exceptional cases of house-numbers but has been widely adopted. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema > Zip/postal code support? > What about city/state/country boundaries? Is there a way to > search/download these via the API? Only very basic I'm afraid. We have zip-code polygons but they are seldomly used and the "is_in" and "postal_code"-Tags on streets/cities/suburbs/... to define what zip-code/city/state they are in. I have been pointing this out since eons as I have the same issue writing my navigation-program (TravelingSales.sourceforge.net). For city/Suburb-boundaries we get more and more polygons to do this but many are still only a node of type "place=village","place=city",... and you have to guess a radius to apply for these. You may want to have a look at (and maybe document the questions and answers you found): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Routing http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_tags_for_routing Marcus _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
