Exporting embeddable HTML with all POI's

braaad · 2010-06-02T23:29:08.000Z

Hi, I’m new to this project. I’ve successfully embedded a map of my city on my website, however, none of the POI’s appear on this map. Is there an easy way to make them all appear?

braaad · 2010-06-04T18:41:51.000Z

It’s not possible or it’s so obvious no one wants to reply? Heh, sorry if it’s the latter- I’m trying to bone up on the whole OSM project but there’s a lot to learn. If anybody knows the answer to my question, I’d really appreciate it! Thanks.

MikeN1 · 2010-06-04T19:00:26.000Z

Hi, welcome to OSM! POIs such as restaurants won’t appear until the map is shown at a minimum zoom level. However, some POIs will never show because the default map rendering (Mapnik) chooses neatness over showing POIs; POIs won’t render if the text overlaps each other or another important feature.

The only way to get such a rendering is to create your own map tile server where you can change the stylesheet to meet your needs. For example, http://www.weait.com/content/build-your-own-openstreetmap-server . I’m in the long process of doing this to get higher zoom levels for a small area, plus default rendering for shop=* and amenity=* which would otherwise not be shown.

Seventy7 · 2010-06-06T14:51:00.000Z

If you’re embedding on your own website, have a look at openlayers. This lets you take a file of POIs (say) and overlay them over a Mapnik (say) background.