Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-22 Thread Dave F.
Adrian Brain wrote: 2010/1/21 Matthias Julius li...@julius-net.net http://uk.mc276.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=li...@julius-net.net: Shouldn't that be a service provided by the OSM API? You can up and download GPX tracks. Wouldn't it be a helpful extension if one could up and

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-22 Thread Adrian Brain
The other option is some kind of flickr API, they claimed in July last year there was 120 million geotagged photos, that is a vast untapped resource. To help get most value from my efforts I have created a Flickr id for my area and used it for photos of amenities, business hours, public

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-22 Thread Dave F.
Mike N. wrote: Has anyone created the opposite? A map with clickable hyperlinked POIs that take you to the photo source? Is this even possible? http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp/?lat=51.2592412lon=-2.1832964zoom=17 This isn't my work, but I'm working with the original author to

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-22 Thread Dave F.
Adrian Brain wrote: The other option is some kind of flickr API, they claimed in July last year there was 120 million geotagged photos, that is a vast untapped resource. To help get most value from my efforts I have created a Flickr id for my area and used it for photos of

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-22 Thread Mike N.
Personally, I find the graphics a bit 'in your face' but the panning zooming is still good. When extras are added to online maps I find the slipperiness is compromised. Could you elaborate on the compromised slipperiness part? For me, in Firefox, the zoom control doesn't work, but I hope

Re: [Tagging] What's a power=station?

2010-01-22 Thread Mike N.
I'm not advocating using the directory instead of amenity=cafe or amenity=fuel or whatever. But in the long term, the ideal solution would probably be to allow that directory type information to be maintained separately, in a more convenient form than a 2D map. Particularly since while