diff --git a/css/60_photos.css b/css/60_photos.css
index f3d52988b..ae2d9c4e0 100644
--- a/css/60_photos.css
+++ b/css/60_photos.css
@@ -113,6 +113,14 @@
     stroke-opacity: 1;
 }
 
+/* Notes Layer */
+.layer-notes {
+    pointer-events: none;
+}
+.layer-notes .notes * {
+    fill: #20c4ff;
+}
+
 
 /* Streetside Image Layer */
 .layer-streetside-images {
diff --git a/modules/osm/index.js b/modules/osm/index.js
index 528f679ef..bbbb4835a 100644
--- a/modules/osm/index.js
+++ b/modules/osm/index.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 export { osmChangeset } from './changeset';
 export { osmEntity } from './entity';
 export { osmNode } from './node';
+export { osmNote } from './note';
 export { osmRelation } from './relation';
 export { osmWay } from './way';
 
diff --git a/modules/osm/note.js b/modules/osm/note.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..268992fcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/osm/note.js
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import _extend from 'lodash-es/extend';
+
+import { osmEntity } from './entity';
+import { geoExtent } from '../geo';
+
+
+export function osmNote() {
+    if (!(this instanceof osmNote)) {
+        return (new osmNote()).initialize(arguments);
+    } else if (arguments.length) {
+        this.initialize(arguments);
+    }
+}
+
+osmEntity.note = osmNote;
+
+osmNote.prototype = Object.create(osmEntity.prototype);
+
+_extend(osmNote.prototype, {
+
+    type: 'note',
+
+
+    extent: function() {
+        return new geoExtent(this.loc);
+    },
+
+
+    geometry: function(graph) {
+        return graph.transient(this, 'geometry', function() {
+            return graph.isPoi(this) ? 'point' : 'vertex';
+        });
+    }
+});
diff --git a/modules/services/notes.js b/modules/services/notes.js
index dc6664550..beea5068f 100644
--- a/modules/services/notes.js
+++ b/modules/services/notes.js
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 import _extend from 'lodash-es/extend';
 import _filter from 'lodash-es/filter';
+import _flatten from 'lodash-es/flatten';
 import _find from 'lodash-es/find';
 import _forEach from 'lodash-es/forEach';
 import _isEmpty from 'lodash-es/isEmpty';
+import _map from 'lodash-es/map';
 
 import osmAuth from 'osm-auth';
 
@@ -10,19 +12,25 @@ import rbush from 'rbush';
 
 var _entityCache = {};
 
+import { range as d3_range } from 'd3-array';
 import { dispatch as d3_dispatch } from 'd3-dispatch';
 import { xml as d3_xml } from 'd3-request';
 
 import { d3geoTile as d3_geoTile } from '../lib/d3.geo.tile';
 import { geoExtent } from '../geo';
 
+import {
+    osmNote,
+    osmEntity,
+} from '../osm';
+
 import {
     utilRebind,
     utilIdleWorker
 } from '../util';
 
 var urlroot = 'https://api.openstreetmap.org',
-    _notesCache = { notes: { inflight: {}, loaded: {} } },
+    _notesCache,
     __notesSelectedNote,
     dispatch = d3_dispatch('loadedNotes', 'loading'),
     tileZoom = 14;
@@ -87,6 +95,130 @@ function nearNullIsland(x, y, z) {
     return false;
 }
 
+// no more than `limit` results per partition.
+function searchLimited(psize, limit, projection, rtree) {
+    limit = limit || 3;
+
+    var partitions = partitionViewport(psize, projection);
+    var results;
+
+    results = _flatten(_map(partitions, function(extent) {
+        return rtree.search(extent.bbox())
+            .slice(0, limit)
+            .map(function(d) { return d.data; });
+    }));
+    return results;
+}
+
+// partition viewport into `psize` x `psize` regions
+function partitionViewport(psize, projection) {
+    var dimensions = projection.clipExtent()[1];
+    psize = psize || 16;
+    var cols = d3_range(0, dimensions[0], psize);
+    var rows = d3_range(0, dimensions[1], psize);
+    var partitions = [];
+
+    rows.forEach(function(y) {
+        cols.forEach(function(x) {
+            var min = [x, y + psize];
+            var max = [x + psize, y];
+            partitions.push(
+                geoExtent(projection.invert(min), projection.invert(max)));
+        });
+    });
+
+    return partitions;
+}
+
+function getLoc(attrs) {
+    var lon = attrs.lon && attrs.lon.value;
+    var lat = attrs.lat && attrs.lat.value;
+    return [parseFloat(lon), parseFloat(lat)];
+}
+
+function parseComments(comments) {
+    var parsedComments = [];
+
+    // for each comment
+    var i;
+    for (i = 0; i < comments.length; i++) {
+        if (comments[i].nodeName === 'comment') {
+            var childNodes = comments[i].childNodes;
+            var parsedComment = {};
+
+            // for each comment element
+            var j;
+            for (j = 0; j < childNodes.length; j++) {
+                if (childNodes[j].nodeName !== '#text') {
+                    var nodeName = childNodes[j].nodeName;
+                    parsedComment[nodeName] = childNodes[j].innerHTML;
+                }
+            }
+            parsedComments.push(parsedComment);
+        }
+    }
+    return parsedComments;
+}
+
+var parsers = {
+    note: function parseNote(obj, uid) {
+        var attrs = obj.attributes;
+        var childNodes = obj.childNodes;
+        var parsedNote = {};
+
+        parsedNote.loc = getLoc(attrs);
+
+        // for each element in a note
+        var i;
+        for (i = 0; i < childNodes.length; i++) {
+            if (childNodes[i].nodeName !== '#text') {
+                var nodeName = childNodes[i].nodeName;
+                // if the element is comments, parse the comments
+                if (nodeName === 'comments') {
+                    parsedNote[nodeName] = parseComments(childNodes[i].childNodes);
+                } else {
+                    parsedNote[nodeName] = childNodes[i].innerHTML;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return {
+            minX: parsedNote.loc[0],
+            minY: parsedNote.loc[1],
+            maxX: parsedNote.loc[0],
+            maxY: parsedNote.loc[1],
+            data: new osmNote(parsedNote)
+        };
+    }
+};
+
+function parse(xml, callback, options) {
+    options = _extend({ cache: true }, options);
+    if (!xml || !xml.childNodes) return;
+
+    var root = xml.childNodes[0];
+    var children = root.childNodes;
+
+    function parseChild(child) {
+        var parser = parsers[child.nodeName];
+        if (parser) {
+            // TODO: change how a note uid is parsed. Nodes also share 'n' + id
+            // var uid = osmEntity.id.fromOSM(child.nodeName, child.childNodes[1].innerHTML);
+            var childNodes = child.childNodes;
+            var id;
+            var i;
+
+            for (i = 0; i < childNodes.length; i++) {
+                if (childNodes[i].nodeName === 'id') { id = childNodes[i].nodeName; }
+            }
+            if (options.cache && _entityCache[id]) {
+                return null;
+            }
+            return parser(child);
+        }
+    }
+    utilIdleWorker(children, parseChild, callback);
+}
+
 export default {
 
     init: function() {
@@ -106,7 +238,7 @@ export default {
             }
         }
 
-        _notesCache = { notes: { inflight: {}, loaded: {} } };
+        _notesCache = { notes: { inflight: {}, loaded: {}, rtree: rbush() } };
 
         __notesSelectedNote = null;
     },
@@ -118,7 +250,21 @@ export default {
     loadFromAPI(path, callback, options) {
         options = _extend({ cache: true }, options);
 
-        function done(err, xml) {}
+        function done(err, xml) {
+            if (err) { console.log ('error: ', err); }
+            parse(
+                xml,
+                function(entities) {
+                    if (options.cache) {
+                        for (var i in entities) {
+                            _entityCache[entities[i].id] = true;
+                        }
+                    }
+                    callback(null, entities);
+                },
+                options
+            );
+        }
 
         if (this.authenticated()) {
             return oauth.xhr({ method: 'GET', path: path }, done);
@@ -130,6 +276,7 @@ export default {
     loadTile(which, currZoom, url, tile) {
         var cache = _notesCache[which];
         var bbox = tile.extent.toParam();
+        var fullUrl = url + bbox;
 
         var id = tile.id;
 
@@ -140,9 +287,18 @@ export default {
         }
 
         cache.inflight[id] = this.loadFromAPI(
-            url + bbox,
-            function () {
+            fullUrl,
+            function (err, parsed) {
+                delete cache.inflight[id];
+                if (!err) {
+                    cache.loaded[id] = true;
+                }
 
+                cache.rtree.load(parsed);
+
+                if (_isEmpty(cache.inflight)) {
+                    dispatch.call('loadedNotes');
+                }
             },
             []
         );
@@ -171,5 +327,10 @@ export default {
     loadNotes: function(projection) {
         var url = urlroot + '/api/0.6/notes?bbox=';
         this.loadTiles('notes', url, projection);
-    }
+    },
+
+    notes: function(projection) {
+        var psize = 32, limit = 3;
+        return searchLimited(psize, limit, projection, _notesCache.notes.rtree);
+    },
 };
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/modules/svg/notes.js b/modules/svg/notes.js
index 7d2fd3b35..f1452ece5 100644
--- a/modules/svg/notes.js
+++ b/modules/svg/notes.js
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+import _some from 'lodash-es/some';
 import _throttle from 'lodash-es/throttle';
 import { select as d3_select } from 'd3-selection';
+import { svgPointTransform } from './index';
 import { services } from '../services';
 
 export function svgNotes(projection, context, dispatch) {
@@ -67,6 +69,36 @@ export function svgNotes(projection, context, dispatch) {
             .on('end', editOff);
     }
 
+    function update() {
+        var service = getService();
+        var data = (service ? service.notes(projection) : []);
+        var transform = svgPointTransform(projection);
+        var notes = layer.selectAll('.notes').selectAll('.note')
+            .data(data, function(d) { return d.key; });
+
+        // exit
+        notes.exit()
+            .remove();
+
+        // enter
+        var notesEnter = notes.enter()
+            .append('g')
+            .attr('class', 'note');
+
+        // update
+        var markers = notes
+            .merge(notesEnter)
+            .attr('transform', transform);
+
+        markers.selectAll('circle')
+            .data([0])
+            .enter()
+            .append('circle')
+            .attr('dx', '0')
+            .attr('dy', '0')
+            .attr('r', '6');
+    }
+
     function drawNotes(selection) {
         var enabled = svgNotes.enabled,
             service = getService();
@@ -82,10 +114,6 @@ export function svgNotes(projection, context, dispatch) {
             .attr('class', 'layer-notes')
             .style('display', enabled ? 'block' : 'none');
 
-        // layerEnter
-        //     .append('g')
-        //     .attr('class', 'sequences');
-
         layerEnter
             .append('g')
             .attr('class', 'notes');
@@ -96,7 +124,7 @@ export function svgNotes(projection, context, dispatch) {
         if (enabled) {
             if (service && ~~context.map().zoom() >= minZoom) {
                 editOn();
-                // update();
+                update();
                 service.loadNotes(projection);
             } else {
                 editOff();