Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

[Randy Thomson]

andrzej zaborowski wrote:

 Hi folks,
 
 2009/9/28 Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com:
  http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/09/28/thats-maybe-a-bit-too-dorky-e
  ven-for-us/
 
 Just a note that http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp now shows those osm:
 machine tagged pictures from flickr at z = 15 in addition to
 wikipedia and other external links.  Here is a nice concentration of
 picture-tagged objects from user SK53:
 
 http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp?lat=51.5225lon=-0.7235z=16
 
 Flickr dots are pink, wikipedia blue, all other grey (if you have a
 better suggestion I'll take it).  Mouse over to highlight ways and
 areas.
 
 The page does not use flickr geolocation apis, only the tags.
 
 Flickr tags for all flickr-linked features in view come up at the
 bottom of the page but there are currently too few of them for it to
 be fun.
 
 If a picture happens to have both a osm:node/way/relation= machine tag
 and a dopplr:eat= or foursquare:venue= tag, then also links to Dopplr
 and foursquare.com are displayed directly on the map.  I think this is
 a nice example of how Linked Data works because neither osm knows
 about foursquare.com or foursquare about osm, yet records in two
 databases manage to be matched.
 
 Cheers

A very nice merging of data! A slight presentation tweek you might
consider is using something besides the expanding dots when the cursor
is in the vicinity of the features. When there are several features
close together, the expansion makes the dots run together and it's hard
to pick one or see all of the ones that are close. Possibly using a
color change (only) or a different color outline around the dots would
be more effective. A black (or other color) outline would preserve the
original Flickr/Widipedia information of the dot.

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Randy


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Re: [Talk-us] Parking on the Street, Variable Availability Parking

[Randy Thomson]

Chris Lawrence wrote:

 On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Ian Dees
 ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Christopher Covington
  c...@vt.edu wrote:
   
  From the wiki,
   
  Parking spaces along streets are currently not tagged. Only
 parking  lots of reasonable size are mapped, not every place where
 a car could be  parked.
   
  Is there any solution to this? At, for example, the student
 apartment  complexes in Blacksburg, VA, there are very few parking
 spaces where  non-residents can park. Some of these are on the
 street. It would be  very useful to map these spaces. Any way to do
 it that would be better  than drawing thin strips?
   
  Also, any tips on adding variable availability public parking
  information, i.e. reserved for faculty staff M-F 9-5, public
 otherwise  or metered M-F 9-5, free otherwise?
   
  
  This almost sounds to me like data too complex to be tagged by
  simple key/value pairs. You're right though, it would be very nice
  to have that information.
 
 Well, a on-street parking tag might be helpful.
 parking={parallel|angled} maybe on the ways?  Then you could also have
 parking=no for ways where parking isn't permitted at all.
 
 Parking restrictions are probably best handled by a new relation.  I
 could see using relations for parking zones (e.g. areas where
 on-street parking is by permit, lots where a certain permit is needed,
 etc).  And then you'd have possible restrictions (maxtime in minutes,
 day of week/alternate day rules, etc.) that you could base off those
 being used with the existing turn restrictions relations.  Not sure if
 these things are generally useful but if you're going to use OSM as
 the basis for a campus parking map or something like that it might be
 worthwhile.
 
 
 Chris

Did a little more research. There is a a
href=http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/parking_laned
raft parking_lane/a page. You may want to look at, and contribute to.
(Don't know if the link will work from this NNTP client. If not you can
copy  paste.)

-- 
Randy


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