[Xastir] Open Street Map support

[Jim]

Andrew Errington wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:31:16 Jim wrote:
> <snip>
>   
>> 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
>   
Thanks, Andrew,

Our weather service spotters network was asking for some way to post the 
location of reporting stations on a map.  It sounds like OSM is 
friendlier than Google Maps.

Jim.