THIS...IS...AWESOME! :) There are of course feature requests/suggestions.
1) Make it more obvious for people that the POIs can be clicked on. It doesn't have to be on the POIs themselves so it might fall outside of your technical solution. Or maybe lift the solution from Wikipedia's POI map since it's already been done (if license permits). 2) Internationalization would be great. 3) Rather than displaying the tags and their values, translate them into user-friendly strings. A complete list of tags could just clutter the UI. Like if one click's on the border of Reykjavík (capital of Iceland) and choose Reykjavík. It's mainly a list of the city's name in other languages, which has very limited use. 4) Display information when clicking on buildings. Not just about the POIs themselves, also the construction year and such. Maybe present the complete address within the country if available. I'd think the general public would like that very much. 5) Link to the Wikipedia entry if there is one, with priority to the UI's language of choice. This has been done before, I think, in the Wikipedia POI map. You could maybe use the same api to get the correct language. 6) And of course make the code configurable in the backend so others can implement it easily on their OSM sites. :) With regards, Svavar Kjarrval On 21/01/13 08:37, Roland Olbricht wrote: > 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
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