On 6 June 2012 17:12, Tom Chance <t...@acrewoods.net> wrote: > On 4 June 2012 15:28, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: >> >> The nice folk at OpenPlaques have drawn my attention to the London >> Mural Preservation Society's map: >> >> http://londonmuralpreservationsociety.com/ >> >> which uses OSM, but with (presumably) their own data overlaid. >> >> It occurs to me that we could be mapping murals directly in OSM. We >> already have the 'artwork' tag, and could use, say, artwork=mural. >> >> Thoughts? > > > No reason why not, just effort and the question of whether it's worth it. > > I imagine they would need a helping hand to download the data via a XAPI > server and process it to be used on their web site. At the moment they > appear to hardcode the mural locations for the map in a string embedded into > the page HTML. > > As they carry some nice pages with further info for each mural, which > couldn't really all be stored in OSM, they'd still need a way of keeping > their own data and then linking it to OSM objects, perhaps with their own > tag. At which point they might wonder - what's the point?
Indeed they might; but then, I was suggesting that we - the OSM community - do this; not the London Mural Preservation Society. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
