Re: [OSM-talk] Building a free/open reviews community w/ OSM support

2016-08-08 Thread Marc Gemis
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: >> - add an external ID to OSM. This would be analogue to the current wikidata >> tag. It's better not to add external IDs to OSM. It would be OK if there is only 1 project in the world that would do this, but if every pet project will start do

Re: [OSM-talk] Building a free/open reviews community w/ OSM support

2016-08-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Il giorno 09 ago 2016, alle ore 00:46, Nicolás Alvarez ha scritto: >> From a data consumer's point of view, when >> I look up the original node ID, do I just get a "not found", or is >> there an easy way to tell that there's a new way or relation now >> representing the same

Re: [OSM-talk] Building a free/open reviews community w/ OSM support

2016-08-08 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
2016-08-08 17:52 GMT-03:00 Erik Moeller : > On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 2:56 AM, joost schouppe > wrote: >> Keeping OSM and an external database linked is no mean feat. Say you load a >> McDonalds POI to your database and someone reviews it. But then a mapper >> comes along and changes the node to a l

Re: [OSM-talk] Building a free/open reviews community w/ OSM support

2016-08-08 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 2:56 AM, joost schouppe wrote: > Keeping OSM and an external database linked is no mean feat. Say you load a > McDonalds POI to your database and someone reviews it. But then a mapper > comes along and changes the node to a line. Upon the next update of your POI > database,

Re: [OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

2016-08-08 Thread Michał Brzozowski
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: > Using colors like this is an excellent idea, however we shall not rely on > colors alone as several percent of people cannot distinguish colors due to > color blindness [1]. Besides, color blindness may develop with an advanced > age, so n

Re: [OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

2016-08-08 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
OSM could use as Michał suggested Wiki{pedia|data} tags. There is also /wikimedia_commons/ [1] tag and geographical coordinates from Wikipedia articles themselves easily available via MediaWIki API. I wrote a web-application which displays either Wikipedia articles on the map, or OSM Wiki{pedi

Re: [OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

2016-08-08 Thread Janko Mihelić
I'm guessing Google is not only using POIs, but several other sources, like geo Tweets, got tagged photos put up on Google+, and so on. I think they are trying to make it easy for tourists to find the "in" spots where something is happening. If you're trying to find a nice restaurant, night club, p

Re: [OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

2016-08-08 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Using colors like this is an excellent idea, however we shall not rely on colors alone as several percent of people cannot distinguish colors due to color blindness [1]. Besides, color blindness may develop with an advanced age, so no one is color-safe. We do not hear often about color blindne

Re: [OSM-talk] Building a free/open reviews community w/ OSM support

2016-08-08 Thread joost schouppe
Keeping OSM and an external database linked is no mean feat. Say you load a McDonalds POI to your database and someone reviews it. But then a mapper comes along and changes the node to a line. Upon the next update of your POI database, your review will not find the object it linked to before, becau