Tag: programming

PHP help?

I wrote my first ever JSONP data provider in PHP during my (longish) lunch hour today. For a given “bounded box” of coordinates, it finds the bike paths within that box from OpenStreetMap and returns each path as a set of coordinates so you can use those path points as, for example, a polyline to display an “OSM Bike Path” layer on a Google Map.

I’m an OS kernel engineer, not a PHP web programming guru, so I’m having difficulty solving a problem with arrays and objects. If you know more than a little PHP I’d love a hand.

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