What a great addition to the growing new tools/features to the OSM homepage. Fantastic work. In fact I am using the beta as my main map now.
A couple of things. A)I having problems when selecting any (large) area. For example a stadium, park, shopping centre, hospital, school, etc where they are amenity, etc as an area. It often selects the smaller POIs inside/on top of the area but not the actual area itself (so returning individual buildings, shops, streams, playgrounds, etc). Often it will display nothing. Occasionally it will get a hit the overall area but not very often and there seems to be no logic to it. Is that because I am not hitting the actual nodes? Or maybe you are not covering areas properly? Even if I search in OSM for e.g. the shopping centre and it places the pointer right in the middle of the area it often will not find anything. Technically it is likely more difficult to get catch areas rather than nodes but logically for the users you want to catch the areas. I imagine relations as multiple ways of areas is even more complex to get a confirmed "hit" but initially I am just talking about polygon areas B) wikipedia links. It has been said already but even then there is some confusion. The recommended way for tagging wikipedia links is to use wikipedia=language:page title and not wikipedia=http://en.wikipedia.com/blah Here is our wiki page about wikipedia tagging - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikipedia As we have a lot of wikipedia links now it would be great to link directly to the real pages. e.g. Tag wikipedia=en:St Paul's Cathedral would resolve to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral But you will have to go some regex/Encoding to get this correct. Anyway sorry if that sounded negative it is just to give feedback and not headaches, keep up the good work. -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/POI-display-on-osm-org-tp5745598p5745698.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
