Dear all, have you ever been annoyed that Mapnik doesn't render a name for a street or a pub, although you are interested in?
The POI click feature for osm.org now has a public prototype: http://overpass.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ Just click on the map somewhere and all the nearby named items are shown with their tags. It follows the idea http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Top_Ten_Tasks#POI_inspection_tool_on_the_frontpage Before this moves to the main site, I would like to improve the usability as much as possible. So I'm grateful for all feedback. For example: Are there places or zoom levels where interesting points are missing? Or places where you get too much? Would you like some other formatting, more or less headlines, icons or whatever to easier categorize the results? Would you like to see something different than the list of tags? Have you other observations or suggestions? For example, Pawel made some technical observations that will give rise to improved speed for way-bbox queries on future version of Overpass API. A few details: You may see three kinds of results. If there are few results, they are shown immediately. If there are more results, they are shown as expandable headlines. If there are no results or way too much results, an error message is shown. The range depends on the zoom level, compensating for mouse position inaccuracies. It is currently about 20 meters on zoom level 18 and doubles with every zoom level. As an extra feature, if an element has a tag value starting with "http://";, the headline of the element gets a hyperlink to the URL written in this tag value. Cheers, Roland _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
