Routing MapQuest open offers an Open Directions Service and an Open Guidance Service. Additional information about Routing in OpenStreetMap can be found in the Routing article on the OSM wiki. Geocoding Cloudmade’s Web Maps API includes a geocoder. The geocoders currently used on OpenStreetMap’s main site are Nominatim and GeoNames. There is now also an … Read more
You can integrate OSM by using the Osmdroid API. This gives you functionality very similar to Google maps but you can also use OSM tiles offline if you prepare the tiles with Mobile Atlas Creator (MOBAC) See Osmdroid home page (GitHub) You just need the osmdroid-android-3.0.5.jar in your build path. You don’t need an API … Read more
Not supported in GFM Embedding an <iframe> into GitHub-flavored Markdown (GFM) is not supported. Here’s the official stance on it from their specs: 6.11 Disallowed Raw HTML (extension) GFM enables the tagfilter extension, where the following HTML tags will be filtered when rendering HTML output: <title> <textarea> <style> <xmp> <iframe> <noembed> <noframes> <script> <plaintext> […] … Read more
OSRM gives you routes with road geometries as they are in the OpenStreetMap database. For example, you can get the route as GPX (and post-process this file if you want). This would look like the following: GET http://router.project-osrm.org/viaroute?hl=en&loc=47.064970,15.458470&loc=47.071100,15.476760&output=gpx Read more: OSRM API docs.
You need to implement the next section of the Quick Start Guide: you’ve initialized the map, but haven’t added any tile layers to it, hence gray. So read on to the section beginning with Next we’ll add a tile layer to add to our map.
The standard tile server of OSM tries to display labels in the local language whenever such data is available (local meaning the language of the country currently displayed, not your local language). The tiles, served by the tile server, already contain the labels, so you cannot remove them afterwards. But you can: render them on … Read more
There are multiple reverse geocoding APIs available for OpenStreetMap (since the data is open-source, anyone can build one). The two that I would recommend you investigate further are: Nominatim, run by a member of the OSM community as a volunteer project. Reverse Geocoding documentation CloudMade Geocoding, run as a commercial service. Reverse Geocoding documentation (at … Read more
Yes, there is an api and xapi (extended api). I havent used these yet. But there is also the cloudmade api to OSM. I played a bit with the python api. I am not sure, if any of them could help you with your particular problem, but you could search for a coastline near to … Read more
There are multiple reverse geocoding APIs available for OpenStreetMap (since the data is open-source, anyone can build one). The two that I would recommend you investigate further are: Nominatim, run by a member of the OSM community as a volunteer project. Reverse Geocoding documentation CloudMade Geocoding, run as a commercial service. Reverse Geocoding documentation (at … Read more
Using Mapbox GL ⚠️ WARNING: the instructions below for Mapbox appear to no longer be free if you use SDK/library versions after 2.0.0, released around Dec 2020. See this SO answer for more details: https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/188241/55948 Old answer (pre-December 2020 – see above): Another option is to use Mapbox GL, which is free as long as … Read more