I posted a question on Reading terrain data from Google? and but an answer that opened up a whole new world to me; that google wasn't the only service that was logging/tracking GIS information.
My original question was not answered and i marked the first answer correct as i thought it would provide me (and other people) with enough information to solve the question.
I still don't know how to get the information i want. I want to call an API (from c# to be specific or just through http requests) that returns information about an area. I want to know what parts of the area is covered in forest, water, roads but i also need to know the location of different structures like stores, gas stations, atm's etc.
My initial understand is that while OpenStreetMap might be the central data storage, the real-time querying seems to be delegated to other services/servers/companies? Can someone confirm or correct me in this?
I searched and found an API documentation here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6 but it doesn't help me much. Then i found MapQuest - i beleive that is a provider of data so i created an account. It seems i also need a developer account and i can't use the same email? I never managed to create a developer account - i blame a faulty UI but lets assume i get the account and a valid API key - HOW do i query the data i need.
Can someone give me an example - preferably a http GET request url encoded on how to query the information described for a given (you pick) location?
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My original question was not answered and i marked the first answer correct as i thought it would provide me (and other people) with enough information to solve the question.
I still don't know how to get the information i want. I want to call an API (from c# to be specific or just through http requests) that returns information about an area. I want to know what parts of the area is covered in forest, water, roads but i also need to know the location of different structures like stores, gas stations, atm's etc.
My initial understand is that while OpenStreetMap might be the central data storage, the real-time querying seems to be delegated to other services/servers/companies? Can someone confirm or correct me in this?
I searched and found an API documentation here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6 but it doesn't help me much. Then i found MapQuest - i beleive that is a provider of data so i created an account. It seems i also need a developer account and i can't use the same email? I never managed to create a developer account - i blame a faulty UI but lets assume i get the account and a valid API key - HOW do i query the data i need.
Can someone give me an example - preferably a http GET request url encoded on how to query the information described for a given (you pick) location?
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