Re: [udig-devel] Open Street Map

[Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cory (and old udig hacker) was the last person to get excited about this :-)

As far as I can tell open street maps has a nice API and it should be a 
couple days work to pull data in... making a nice renderer (or 
converting to geotools features may be a bit more fun).

In anycase good idea - let me find you links:
- http://josm.openstreetmap.de/

I also found this in my searching
- http://earthissquare.com/2008/03/25/open-street-maps-in-worldwind/
Harry Bullen wrote:
> I remember back in the summer someone mentioned that they had created
> a uDig plugin that would pull data from google maps.  However it's not
> really legal to redistribute it.  So I was looking at
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/ and they are actually very similar to
> google maps but with out licensing restrictions.  So it may be
> possible to adapt that plugin to work with openstreetmap.  Which I
> think would be a big turn on for people to use udig.
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