Comments on: FourSquare and OpenStreetMap http://highearthorbit.com/foursquare-and-openstreetmap/ Transmitting ideas, observations, and images from 42,000 km. Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Mendes http://highearthorbit.com/foursquare-and-openstreetmap/comment-page-1/#comment-442632 Mendes Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:43:30 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/?p=1461#comment-442632 @José
What if you want to present a basemap in your application that cannot have yellow roads? (because you need to display some kind of network, or whatever, in which the link colors are mainly yellow).

You can’t compare the kind of flexibility one have when using a OSM data. You can control the it and use it for your best purpose.

You want pretty maps? A 3 minutes look up in a search engine (try google, for instance) can show you at least 10 different styles that put GMaps in a corner.. None suits you? Build your own a serve the tiles.. it’s easy! Again, the OSM data it’s at your disposal.

https://github.com/migurski/OSM-Solar/raw/master/renders/sanfrancisco-11.jpg
https://github.com/migurski/OSM-Solar/raw/master/renders/sanfrancisco-13.jpg
https://github.com/migurski/OSM-Solar/raw/master/renders/sanfrancisco-15.jpg
https://github.com/migurski/OSM-Solar/raw/master/renders/newyork-16.jpg
https://github.com/migurski/OSM-Solar/raw/master/renders/moscow-14.jpg
https://github.com/migurski/OSM-Solar/raw/master/renders/london-12.jpg

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]]> By: Andrew http://highearthorbit.com/foursquare-and-openstreetmap/comment-page-1/#comment-442620 Andrew Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:42:02 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/?p=1461#comment-442620 Thanks José – though I’m not exactly sure what your pictures words are saying. I see just about the same amount of data in both maps. The styling of OpenStreetMap is not as visually pleasing, but that’s not the point here. Perhaps you can share just a few of the thousands words to help clarify.

]]> By: José Antonio Rodriguez Alvarez http://highearthorbit.com/foursquare-and-openstreetmap/comment-page-1/#comment-442616 José Antonio Rodriguez Alvarez Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:32:34 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/?p=1461#comment-442616 bla, bla, bla…I’m from Spain, and my experience with the use of GM and OSM is sumarized according to these pictures:

http://siesa.info/demo/img/SevillaGM.png
http://siesa.info/demo/img/SevillaOSM.png
http://siesa.info/demo/img/MadridGM.png
http://siesa.info/demo/img/MadridOSM.png
http://siesa.info/demo/img/BarcelonaGM.png
http://siesa.info/demo/img/BarcelonaOSM.png

..some pictures are worth a thousand words…

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