Re: [OSM-dev] How to reference specific points of interests in OSM data

2014-03-22 Thread Jo
Use the Overpass API to accomplish what you want to do. It may help to add as much of the relevant data as possible to OSM to make selection afterwards easier/more specific. With Overpass you can limit the search geographically and based on tags or based on membership of relations. Polyglot

[OSM-dev] How to reference specific points of interests in OSM data

2014-03-21 Thread Sachin Dole
Hello, I am fairly new to OSM and am figuring out how to use this in my application. I want to be able to add additional metadata to certain places such as hotels, airports, car rental agencies etc. I am planning to do this additional metadata in my own database. However, I read on this

Re: [OSM-dev] How to reference specific points of interests in OSM data

2014-03-21 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
Remember location and use the closest result? 2014-03-21 21:57 GMT+01:00 Sachin Dole sd...@genvega.com: Hello, I am fairly new to OSM and am figuring out how to use this in my application. I want to be able to add additional metadata to certain places such as hotels, airports, car rental