On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 13:47 +0900, Andrew Errington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure where to announce this, but since I started by making
> enquiries here, perhaps this is the best place to finish.  Besides, since
> it's now in the Wiki it doesn't need to be announced, as people will find
> it.
> 
> I am grateful to Renaud Michel for providing the useful bits of XSLT code
> while I fiddled around the edges.
> 
> This simple project is to make a set of POI layers to overlay on top of a
> town map.  The code should be self explanatory.  It's not highly polished,
> and there are many improvements that could be made.  These are left as an
> exercise for the reader.  If I have made any glaring errors, well, it's a
> wiki.  Please fix them for me.
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Openlayers_POI_layer_example_2
> 
> In case you are wondering, a 'hagwon' is a private education business
> which teaches students out of school hours.  The equivalent in Japan is
> 'juku'.  I'd like to have an 'official' recognition of this tag as hagwons
> are very common here in Korea, but that is another matter.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Andrew

Thanks for sharing this nice approach to generating the csv files used
by OpenLayers, its a useful extension to the previous example.

I should probably note that any fixed-file methods of pulling in POIs
will get horribly slow in browsers when the number of points starts
reaching the tens of thousands.

Regards,
Thomas


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