Hi all,
I’m newbie so please if this post is not appropriate here feel free to move it.
I’m a Prestashop user a e-commerce CMS. Prestashop uses Google maps and Google API to locate my physical store and or customers addresses in order charts.
I would like to switch to OSM but I’m not able to understand how OSM API works
Any cookbook available?
Thank you in advance for your time
OSM doesn’t use an API to “show a location on a map”. The openstreetmap.org site uses a JS library called leaflet to do that. A URL such as https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=6/18.041/80.079 encodes the zoom level, latitude and longitude. The underlying map tiles can be whatever you want, and you can host your own (for example https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=13&lat=52.833&lon=-1.2667 is a simple map view incorporating tiles I’ve created). See also e.g. https://openmaptiles.org/styles/ for vector rather than raster tiles.
There are external APIs for forward and reverse geolocation, of which Nominatim is one (see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim ) but unlike with Google there are several instances around the world, and you can host the data yourself for free.
I’m not aware of a drop-in replacement for Google Map API calls to replace them with OSM ones (my recollection was that one did exist for Cordova or Qt, but I can’t find a link right now).