DataEngine for OpenStreetMap (with geolocation)

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On February 10, 2010, Friedrich Pülz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm the developer of publicTransport (data engine and applet in playground)
> and want to provide the user with near stops to choose from. The
> geolocation data engine provides latitude and longitude which can be used
> to get information about things in the area near the user from
> openstreetmap (for example public transport stops, ie. relations with
> public_transport=stop_area). I just implemented a first version of such a
> data engine which works quite well.
> The data engine could also provide information about near shops, doctors,
> pubs, restaurants, ... An applet that displays such stuff would also be
> nice (at least for the ones with GPS hardware).
> What do you think?

i think it's a brilliant idea. is your dataengine in playground or somewhere 
else we can play with it? :)

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