Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-22 Thread Dave F.
Mike N. wrote: >> Personally, I find the graphics a bit 'in your face' but the panning & >> zooming is still good. When extras are added to online maps I find the >> slipperiness is compromised. >> > > Could you elaborate on the compromised slipperiness part? For me, in > Firefox, the zoo

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-22 Thread Mike N.
> Personally, I find the graphics a bit 'in your face' but the panning & > zooming is still good. When extras are added to online maps I find the > slipperiness is compromised. Could you elaborate on the compromised slipperiness part? For me, in Firefox, the zoom control doesn't work, but I h

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-22 Thread Dave F.
Adrian Brain wrote: > > >> The other option is some kind of flickr API, they claimed in July > last > > >> year there was 120 million geotagged photos, that is a vast untapped > > >> resource. > > > > To help get most value from my efforts I have created a Flickr id for > > my area and used it for

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-22 Thread Dave F.
Mike N. wrote: >> Has anyone created the opposite? A map with clickable hyperlinked POIs >> that take you to the photo source? >> Is this even possible? >> > > http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp/?lat=51.2592412&lon=-2.1832964&zoom=17 > >This isn't my work, but I'm working with the original aut

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-22 Thread Adrian Brain
> >> The other option is some kind of flickr API, they claimed in July last > >> year there was 120 million geotagged photos, that is a vast untapped > >> resource. > > To help get most value from my efforts I have created a Flickr id for > my area and used it for photos of amenities, business hou

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-22 Thread Mike N.
> Has anyone created the opposite? A map with clickable hyperlinked POIs > that take you to the photo source? > Is this even possible? http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp/?lat=51.2592412&lon=-2.1832964&zoom=17 This isn't my work, but I'm working with the original author to further refine this and

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-22 Thread Dave F.
Adrian Brain wrote: > >>2010/1/21 Matthias Julius >: > >> > Shouldn't that be a service provided by the OSM API? You can up and > >> > download GPX tracks. Wouldn't it be a helpful extension if one > could up > >> > and download

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-21 Thread Adrian Brain
>>2010/1/21 Matthias Julius : >> > Shouldn't that be a service provided by the OSM API?  You can up and >> > download GPX tracks.  Wouldn't it be a helpful extension if one could up >> > and download geolocated photos, too? >> The other option is some kind of flickr API, they claimed in July last

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-20 Thread John Smith
2010/1/21 Matthias Julius : > Shouldn't that be a service provided by the OSM API?  You can up and > download GPX tracks.  Wouldn't it be a helpful extension if one could up > and download geolocated photos, too? The other option is some kind of flickr API, they claimed in July last year there was

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-20 Thread Matthias Julius
John Smith writes: > 2010/1/21 Erik Johansson : >> >> I tried mapping open_hours of shops, but it's just too much work with >> my current work flow anyone with a good solution for it? > > crowd source it, photo the shop information and stick it somewhere > accessible for the arm chair mappers to

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-20 Thread John Smith
2010/1/21 Erik Johansson : > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Liz wrote: >> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: >>> We map everything we can. And POIs btw is one big reason for lot of >>> people to map. >>> >> >> Originally I didn't realise that there was no special reason for which shop

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-20 Thread Erik Johansson
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Liz wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: >> We map everything we can. And POIs btw is one big reason for lot of >> people to map. >> > > Originally I didn't realise that there was no special reason for which shops > had tagged and which didn't, so

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-20 Thread Liz
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: > We map everything we can. And POIs btw is one big reason for lot of > people to map. > Originally I didn't realise that there was no special reason for which shops had tagged and which didn't, so I only 'collected' POIs which had tags already. Now