[Xastir] Open Street Map support

[Andrew Errington]

On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:11:22 Jim wrote:
> Andrew Errington wrote:
> > On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:31:16 Jim wrote:
> > <snip>
<snip>
> 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.

Well, Google is quite developer- and user-friendly, and will let you do stuff 
with its products.  But, you have to get a developer ID and there are things 
that Google will not permit you to do.

The OpenLayers example I pointed you to in the OSM wiki will probably do what 
you want.  If the reporting stations don't move (or don't move much) they can 
all go into the text file.  When anyone calls up the map page then OpenLayers 
will overlay the icons and deal with panning and zooming.

This has nothing to do with Xastir as such, does it? :)

73,

Andrew