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Practical use of OSM on a Website.

Posted by Walk Eryri on 15 December 2008 in English.

I'm well impressed with the quality of the mapping that i've made us of it on my own website. It's being used in two ways.

1- As an index for walks - www.walkeryri.org.uk on the homepage. Using the script i found on the Wiki along with a text file for all the points of interest. What isn't mentioned is that you can include HTML code inside the description, and i think the result looks pretty good. A border and a shadow would be nice, but it does it's job.

2 - To overlay all my walks onto a map.(e.g. http://walkeryri.org.uk/Routes/cwmcaseg.html ) This made use again of code in the wiki, but i was never able to get the javascript to extract a lat/lon for each walk's starting point to centre the map. I've got to change all those by hand on each page, but it was only a real pain having to edit nearly a hundred pages and manually enter a lat long for each!

My next step is to learn how to contribute as i've loads of gpx data that can fill a lot of gaps on the maps for Snowdonia.

Location: Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom