2009/10/2 Dan Karran :
> 2009/9/30 andrzej zaborowski :
>> It's at http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp (see caveats below).
>
> In terms of interface, those circles can get in the way at times so it
> can be difficult to see what's under them, especially as they grow in
> size when you move your mouse n
2009/9/30 andrzej zaborowski :
> seeing that features that get visualised in some form somewhere (e.g.
> on a slippymap on the web) get mapped more often than other features,
> I've set up an overlay that shows the External Links (proposal at
> [1]), most importantly links to wikipedia pages [2] d
2009/10/2 Pieren :
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
> wrote:
>> and you can have very big features (e.g. an extreme: atlantic ocean),
>> or strangely shaped ones, where coordinates won't do the job (unless
>> you give much more than just 1 pair), because the "center" would be
andrzej zaborowski gmail.com> writes:
>>>http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp
>>
>>>* The first picture from every wikipedia page is displayed.
>>It would be better to show the first non-map picture. That would either
>>require Wikipedia to tag their images somehow, or require the script to
>>guess w
2009/10/2 Ed Avis :
> andrzej zaborowski gmail.com> writes:
>
>>http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp
>
>>* The first picture from every wikipedia page is displayed. As you
>>will notice, this is not always such a good idea.
>
> Often the first picture is itself a map, and sometimes from OSM!
> It would
andrzej zaborowski gmail.com> writes:
>http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp
>* The first picture from every wikipedia page is displayed. As you
>will notice, this is not always such a good idea.
Often the first picture is itself a map, and sometimes from OSM!
It would be better to show the first non
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
wrote:
> and you can have very big features (e.g. an extreme: atlantic ocean),
> or strangely shaped ones, where coordinates won't do the job (unless
> you give much more than just 1 pair), because the "center" would be
> off the object.
There i
2009/10/1 Tobias Knerr :
> Pieren wrote:
>> I never understood people who wants to have wikipedia urls in OSM
>> data. It is not OSM role to point to wikipedia articles but wikipedia
>> to point to OSM geodata. And this has to be done through lat/lon
>> coordinates.
>
> lat/lon coordinates aren't a
2009/10/1 Pieren :
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:28 PM, andrzej zaborowski
> Uh, that's a good argument. I'm sure the group of wikipedian's setting
> up their own osm maps server will be happy to hear that.
That effort has completely different goals and again it's to prettify
the pages, it has no dir
Pieren wrote:
> I never understood people who wants to have wikipedia urls in OSM
> data. It is not OSM role to point to wikipedia articles but wikipedia
> to point to OSM geodata. And this has to be done through lat/lon
> coordinates.
lat/lon coordinates aren't an ideal solution for this. Imagine
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:28 PM, andrzej zaborowski
> No, this is just stupid.
Uh, that's a good argument. I'm sure the group of wikipedian's setting
up their own osm maps server will be happy to hear that.
> A page about a building or about a european route E30 has completely
> nothing to do wit
2009/10/1 Pieren :
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:34 PM, andrzej zaborowski
>>I never understood these arguments and want to encourage using a single
>>wikipedia= tag.
>
> I never understood people who wants to have wikipedia urls in OSM
> data. It is not OSM role to point to wikipedia articles but wi
2009/10/1 Pieren :
> I never understood people who wants to have wikipedia urls in OSM
> data. It is not OSM role to point to wikipedia articles but wikipedia
> to point to OSM geodata. And this has to be done through lat/lon
> coordinates.
in many cases it is interesting/usefull to have an OSM-fe
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:34 PM, andrzej zaborowski
>I never understood these arguments and want to encourage using a single
>wikipedia= tag.
I never understood people who wants to have wikipedia urls in OSM
data. It is not OSM role to point to wikipedia articles but wikipedia
to point to OSM geod
2009/9/30 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason :
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:49 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>> It's at http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp (see caveats below).
>
> Neat.
>
>> * Blue dots are wikipedia links, grey dots are other External Links
>> (website= and url= tags). The wikipedia= value syn
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:49 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> It's at http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp (see caveats below).
Neat.
> * Blue dots are wikipedia links, grey dots are other External Links
> (website= and url= tags). The wikipedia= value syntax is
> ":Title" or "Title" alone for Englis
Hi,
seeing that features that get visualised in some form somewhere (e.g.
on a slippymap on the web) get mapped more often than other features,
I've set up an overlay that shows the External Links (proposal at
[1]), most importantly links to wikipedia pages [2] directly from
objects in OSM.
It's
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