I like the idea of listing the points of interest. I've been looking at Maperitive and the find-home command provided you know the value of the filed such as name its very easy to locate them. However you don't need a web site to do this you can run on a local map to the machine.
Cheerio John On 21 July 2010 02:43, Edward Betts <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote some code (in Python) to generate a very simple street guide using > data > from OpenStreetMap. > > Code here: http://github.com/EdwardBetts/streetguide/ > > Sample output here: http://edwardbetts.com/streetguide/ > > I just have five samples, all in London: Upper Street, Oxford Street, > Regents Street, Covent Garden and Brick Lane. > > It works in Firefox and Google Chrome, but not yet in Internet Explorer. The > output is very rough. You should see a map of the area on the left and a list > of Points Of Interest on the right. The list of POIs includes nodes and ways, > if you click on the name of a node it'll show you the location on the map. I > show extra tags on the node or way. Nodes link to their page in the > openstreetmap browse interface, I will add the same for ways. > > Does this look useful, has anybody else done something similar? > > I plan to filter out some more of the more borrowing nodes and ways. I'm > mostly interested in shops, restaurants, amenities and stations. > > Things I should add: > - Use Nominatim to search for street names and let people generate new guides. > - Find nearest station for subway entrances. > - Don't include house number if street name is not included. > - Improve the HTML and CSS. > > If you want me to see some more samples send me the bounding box you want, no > need to send it to the mailing list. Like this: > -0.10849,51.53161,-0.10047,51.54661 > > I'm interested in ideas about how to better organize the data, or for any > other suggestions. > > -- > Edward. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
