Greasemonkey, or how to embed OSM into geocaching.com
Posted by IgnoredAmbience on 29 April 2008 in English.
Greasemonkey is a brilliant plugin for Mozilla Firefox which allows you to run JavaScript snippets on loading certain webpages.
Using Greasemonkey, it is possible to embed OSM into other websites.
Several months ago, I originally started to embed Ordnance Survey maps into geocaching.com, since there was a reasonable demand for this functionality.
In the most recent version (after working on the OL codebase a little), I added OSM to the available layers for the map widget in an attempt to spread OSM's reputation among geocachers. The good news is that two people have already commented that they're surprised by OSM's coverage, and have started mapping their own data!
I gradually intend to push OSM further up the layer list and hopefully make it the default layer in future versions.
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په 29 April 2008 په 07:00 باندې د xsteadfastx تبصره
where can i find the greasemonkey script? this would be awsome.
په 29 April 2008 په 09:38 باندې د NicRoets تبصره
It's at http://groups.google.com/group/enhanced-os-maps-for-geocaching
This is sooo greeaat !
په 29 April 2008 په 16:11 باندې د IgnoredAmbience تبصره
Hmm, a reasonably good response, I'll push an update to remember the last layer selected ASAP.
په 29 April 2008 په 16:34 باندې د HannesHH تبصره
Great job!
I wish geocaching.com would use OSM maps by default to encourage GPS-lovers to contribute.
په 21 October 2009 په 10:57 باندې د zby-cz تبصره
It doesnt work for me any more, it just shows the google maps. Isnt that userscript out of date? But i would love to see OSM maps instead all the google maps on GC.com website :) thanks
په 15 July 2016 په 21:21 باندې د richlv تبصره
in the meantime, geocaching moved to osm as the default (mapquest open tiles), then moved back to google maps when mapquest open tiles disappeared. anybody got a snippet for firefox to use osm again ? google maps… are lacking any and every useful detail.