An alternative to OpenLayers that I find simpler is Leaflet ( http://leaflet.cloudmade.com). Again quite a few people have used it for displaying points of interest over a base OSM map - see for example http://brewmap.maps3.org.uk, which shows points that you can click to see additional information. Chris Hill did a nice write up on producing something similar at http://chris-osm.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/leaflet.html.
Both OpenLayers and Leaflet will easily do what you want though for web based maps - you will need to think of an alternative if you want printable ones though - I have used mapnik in the past to draw transparent overlay images that can be put on top of a base map. Graham. On 18 August 2012 11:55, Andrew Errington <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:50:07 Gilles Pelletier wrote: > > In my town we have a service called Taxibus. > > You call and give a starting and ending post number and the time. > > At the specified time, a taxi comes up to the starting post and takes you > > to the ending post for a low fixed fee. > > I would like to put on the web a page with openstreetmap imbedded and > with > > all the post numbers included. > > This might clutter up the global map so is there a way to add them on the > > fly as the map is loaded and still retain the capability for the map to > be > > expanded, reduced, moved, etc? > > You should take a look at OpenLayers. > > You can make a webpage with OSM as the background, then add your own > information as a transparent layer on top. You can have many layers and > turn > them on and off. > > Here is a very simple example: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Openlayers_POI_layer_example > > But there are many other examples on the web, and a lot of OpenLayers > documentation. > > Best wishes, > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > -- Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK.
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