Hi,
how would I develop a tool where I can look at an OSM map and then have some kind of settings dialog where I can say for example switch on/off buildings, or switch off all roads which are highway=service. And so on.
What would be the right toolset? I have no idea where to start, so if someone can point me to a tool set or any other hint …
Appreciate your input. Thanks,
M.
You can start at the OSM wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Frameworks
I am not aware that there is any webservice that can display OSM based maps and switch of certain map elements by mouseclick or similar.
you can also look at http://help.osm.org and search for “custom” or “style” …
thanks thats a good start to search for. Maybe an additional question:
I assume I can download the data for a given region as XML or whatever format, manipulate that data and then display it. Anyone a pointer how to
a) get the data in a parsable format
b) how to display the data
Thanks,
M.
You can get daily snapshots of some regions from geofabrik: http://download.geofabrik.de/
Later on, you might want to set up your own tile server.
see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm for alternative download options.
and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rendering how to convert raw OSM data into any kind of graphic.
Hi,
A sort of an example for POIs is here
http://www.lenz-online.de/cgi-bin/osmpoi/osmpoi.pl
In that application you can select what features to draw on top of the base map but you can’t change the rendering of a base map. Making also the base map into dynamic and simple to customise is easy if you can set up a traditional WMS service with user selectable map layers. A rather outdated document about this is at http://latuviitta.org/documents/Super_easy_WMS_server.pdf
You can test what dynamic could mean with the following requests if my demo server happens to be up