Hello Peter, > > Having the icons on the map is unlikely possible, because there might be > > simply not enough space on the Mapnik map. > > If I get a popup saying something about 3 restaurants, but I only see > one or two, that looks strange and I have no idea, where the third one > might be on the map.
It may also discourage the mapper if the third restaurant is not shown on the map. That gets us closer to the problem: there are two different conversions involved here: The first is to get the reality into the database. This is at the heart of the project but essentially a problem of human motivation. A technical solution thus has to motivate mappers and give feedback. This is what the prototype is about: It should show the content of the database as verbatim as possible yet human-readable and -presentable. In particular, the choice which of the three restaurants is the least important is subjective, thus not possible for a machine on a general base, and thus the prototype must show all three restaurants here. The second is to make of the database content a visually appealing map. This is essentially a problem of design. Leaving out features for one or another reason is in general a good choice of design. A tooltip mechamism here is helpful, but on purpose a different task of the Top Ten Tasks. I think a perfect solution here would be to use one or another form of clustering whenever rendering conflicts occur. In particular this requires a straightforward possibilty for the user to easliy hide or show object categories and is thus a completely different approach than a slippy map. A vector map would go in the right direction. A complete solution here is sadly still some years away. Cheers, Roland _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
