[OGDev] [OSM-offlist-talk] Storing extensive notes on points of interest in OSM?

[Dominic Hargreaves]

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On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:29:00PM +0000, Adam Boardman wrote:

> From your post to the OSM talk list it looks like your involved in the 
> OpenGuides project, any idea when it would be possible to have one API 
> to all the OpenGuides sites (preferably maintained by OpenGuides 
> people), that I can query with a bbox to get a list of articles? Would 
> also be useful to have an API to get/put individual entrys.
> 
> We could then build this into OSM using client apps which is where using 
> that data as an overlay is most useful.

This is something we've been planning for a while now, but it requires
quite a lot of infrastructure which we don't currently have, so I'm not
sure I can say much yet :( We're having a hackfest some time in the new
year, though, and I will try and make this a priority, as a single point
of entry/search for OpenGuides is indeed quite important.

We tend to export mostly in RDF format with geo namespaces; is this
likely to be useful? (see the RDF format search on one of the existing
guides for an example).

Dominic.

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