One missing feature with leaflet and openlayers is the seamless integration of geocoding provided by Google's API. I'm sure this is possible with both opensource webmapping api maybe via nominatim. However, when we did a rough evaluation. We decided to use googlemaps api because of the simplicity of adding a geocoding search button.
We plan to use leaflet and the mapbox toolset more in the future. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Check out this new OSM community/marketing site: > > http://switch2osm.org/ > > This website was launched in response to a lot of people wanting or > considering to use OpenStreetMap ever since Google decided to charge > for its Google Maps API for the biggest users. Some companies that > have switched include: > > Nestoria: > http://blog.nestoria.co.uk/why-and-how-weve-switched-away-from-google-ma > Fubra: http://www.fubra.com/blog/2011/11/24/google-maps-free-alternatives/ > Streeteasy: > https://plus.google.com/u/0/118383351194421484817/posts/foj5A1fURGt > > Google's selling point in the Philippines is still it's wealth of > freely accessible satellite imagery, but in terms of map data, OSM has > it beat in places like Boracay <http://boracay.com.ph/map/>, San > Pablo, and Marikina. :-) > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
