[OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread Mahsa Ghasemi
Hi, Does anyone know if we are able to associate an image with a map feature (as an example having an image for a hotel)in OSM? Thanks, Mahsa ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Mahsa Ghasemi m.ghas...@student.unimelb.edu.au wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if we are able to associate an image with a map feature (as an example having an image for a hotel)in OSM? Do you mean associate an image of a specific hotel with the location of that

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread Martijn van Exel
You could add a refererence to a flickr photo ID, although I have not heard of a tagging convention for that. The other way around, referencing OSM features from flickr, is documented: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/09/28/thats-maybe-a-bit-too-dorky-even-for-us/ Martijn van Exel +++

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 29.01.2011 11:05, schrieb Mahsa Ghasemi: Hi, Does anyone know if we are able to associate an image with a map feature (as an example having an image for a hotel)in OSM? If you want to say: you can find a real life photo of this node/way/... object at the following URL: image=URL See:

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/1/29 Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: image=URL I wonder if this is something we would like to have in our db. Imagine if we become really widely used, the amount of these tags would probably explode. I see this as a case for an external database. cheers, Martin

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread John Smith
On 29 January 2011 22:48, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/1/29 Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: image=URL I wonder if this is something we would like to have in our db. Imagine if we become really widely used, the amount of these tags would probably explode. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 29.01.2011 13:48, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2011/1/29 Ulf Lampingulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: image=URL I wonder if this is something we would like to have in our db. Imagine if we become really widely used, the amount of these tags would probably explode. And what's the actual

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread Tobias Knerr
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2011/1/29 Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: image=URL I see this as a case for an external database. So do I. Choosing the right image for an object is very much a matter of personal taste. Furthermore, a lot of controversial policy issues are associated with that

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 29.01.2011 14:34, schrieb Tobias Knerr: M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2011/1/29 Ulf Lampingulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: image=URL I see this as a case for an external database. So do I. Choosing the right image for an object is very much a matter of personal taste. Furthermore, a lot of

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Tobias Knerr wrote: Overall, image selection is an editorial task, and therefore not suited for OSM. Yes but let's view this the other way round. Say someone is making a cool OSM based application for their little town/village and they want to store some image links in OSM - would that

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/1/29 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: What I'm saying is, yes I don't think that we should start a project of the month encouraging everyone to put in image links everywhere; our core project is making a map and ideally the image databases of this would would have an API where you can

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 29.01.2011 13:48, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2011/1/29 Ulf Lampingulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: image=URL I wonder if this is something we would like to have in our db. Imagine if we become really widely

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/1/29 Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com: add the users were mentioning was in WikiCommons. WikiCommons is their repository of usable content that's not directly in Wikipedia. It's images, original documents, etc. I thought Why don't we have that? We can store images of places, licensed

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 29.01.2011 16:26, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2011/1/29 Serge Wroclawskiemac...@gmail.com: add the users were mentioning was in WikiCommons. WikiCommons is their repository of usable content that's not directly in Wikipedia. It's images, original documents, etc. I thought Why don't we have

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 29.01.2011 16:26, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: Here I'm with you. If those Images were stored centrally and hosted by OSM or the wikimedia foundation I see a much better chance of not having a big image-link-cemetery in the database. That cemetery problem is just caused by the current