mohamedmansour/my-hangouts-extension — Issue #105: Research OpenStreetMap as an alternative to Google Maps
Author: mohamedmansour
Created: 2012-03-09 04:47:15+00:00
State: open
Labels: Enhancement

@kaktus621 @johnbc As you heard, many companies are switching to an open mapping service. We should take a look at OpenStreetMap.

Some examples on its usage (clean API)

* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenLayers_Simple_Example
* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenLayers_Marker

Which seems straightforward. Would be nice to see if they do geocode. OSM calles it Nominatim, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

Would be cool if we could experiment with it!