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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.