Re: [udig-devel] Open Street Map

["Harry Bullen" <hbullen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ahh I will have to go looking to that API then.  I'm also thinking
about adapting a thing I did to grab google maps for the google map
server, before someone kindlly pointed out how not legal that was.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Ugo Taddei
<ugo.taddei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> forgot something... I think tilecache can proxy OSM data (with a mapnik
> layer or so), but I might be wrong.
>
> Ugo
>
> Jody Garnett wrote:
>>
>> 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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