[Xastir] Open Street Map support

[Andrew Errington]

On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:31:16 Jim wrote:
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> I'm interested in "decorating" the output of OSM with custom text like
> APRS does.  Can you or someone point me to an API?  I know Google Maps
> uses Javascript to do this.  Is OSM the same?

Hmm.  You don't say exactly what you have in mind, but perhaps OpenLayers is 
what you are looking for:

http://openlayers.org/

You can use any map provider for the background.  Here's an example with an 
OSM map layer:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Openlayers_POI_layer_example

73,

Andrew