On 29/12/2007, Laurence Penney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One would be to do something similar to what I already do on Freemap, > > namely clickable POIs: The user could click on a POI then get a window > > containing a link to its Wikipedia article (if applicable) and its > > description tag (if it has one).
> I'd very much like to allow pop-up info windows on OSM for POIs that > are not Wikipedia articles - that's "not" as in "not yet" and "never > likely to be". > > But communities everywhere should have the ability to write in a > Wikipedia style about their own localities without such wrangles. > > I'd very much like to see a site devoted to connecting OSM point and > way IDs with wiki texts. Is there wider support for this idea? If I > set one up, will anyone use it? > > (One issue is that OSM IDs are not necessarily persistent. If someone > cleans up an area, the IDs are possibly different from before.) > > If OSM IDs really aren't suitable, then a site using POI names, naming > in a Wikipedia style, would still be very useful for similar stuff. no need to create a new site, this is exactly what wikimapia.org is for as far as i can see, there are no limits on 'importance' as there are on wikiepdia, so every little square, street, park, pub, supermarket, etc can have it's own page, and it already has huge amounts of data on hundreds of thousands of POIs it currently overlays it's data on to google map tiles, it would be nice if they were switched to OSM/OAM tiles _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
