July 2010
mapsforge - Project Hosting on Google Code
provide a free and open toolbox that enables the community to easily create new OpenStreetMap-based applications. Provided tools and APIs include solutions for map rendering, route planning and navigation, POI indexing and search, map overlays and more.
February 2010
[this is aaronland] cheap rent in the z-axis
Poking around the GeoNames site tonight I noticed that they've added a new API method called findNearbyStreetsOSM.
A List Apart: Articles: Take Control of Your Maps
by Spone & 4 others (via)
Mapstraction - a javascript library to hide differences between mapping APIs.
by Spone & 15 others
August 2009
Unterbahn » Blog Archive » Serving ‘OSM-JSON’ alongside XML from the OpenStreetMap Rails port
OpenStreetMap.org’s RESTful API allows anyone to access data on their continually growing collaborative map of the world… in XML. This is great for most applications, but if you’re working in JavaScript (as we are), XML might as well be greek. We need JSON.
July 2009
Mapping News by Mapperz
Open Street Map - Static API (Early Development)
"Main idea of the project is to create an web application which will provide an easy way of embedding maps into web pages. Application is going to be deeply configurable and easy to install by anyone on his server. It is being implemented in PHP5.
May 2009
Paul Ramsey: OpenStreetMap moves to PostgreSQL
The speedy success of the hardware appeal (target reached in less than three days) was pretty impressive, but what really perked my (PostgreSQL fanboi) ears up was the news that the new hardware was going to run PostgreSQL, instead of the MySQL database OSM has used from the start. As of April 19, OSM is running their new API live on PostgreSQL.
