Talk:Static map images

Discuss Static map images

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RESTful URL feature idea

I came across this this question about static maps from the big G, which made me think maybe RESTful URLs could be a desirable feature i.e. URLs without '?' params. -- Harry Wood 18:38, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Scripts and plug-ins for static image generating "locally"

A different approach to the problem: rather than having a "service" providing static map image, we could offer up some scripts and plug-ins e.g. for wordpress, which do the static image generating "locally". After all this is fairly simple lightweight tile stitching logic. This could include the option of in-place refreshing, so that map updates appear over time, but on a cache timeout, or alternatively just do one-off image generation without updates (less fun, but perhaps closer to the expected behaviour).

The main aim of this would be to eliminate the dependency on a static image service (although not the tile servers). I think these services are likely to hit scaling problems, and users might justifiably perceive them to be too fragile to point at directly in <img src> urls (particularly when they all run in the "dev" server)

-- Harry Wood 11:13, 1 March 2011 (UTC)