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

10 Dec 2007

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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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