On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:34:30AM +0100, Patrick Kilian wrote: > Hi all, > > in the last couple if days the discussion of a POI layer appeared again. > With the new server we should have enough disk space to store such a > layer and I'm willing to resurrect the old stylesheets / create new > stylesheets for that layer. But since I'm not scratching my own itch > here I have a problem: > > What do we want that layer to be?
At *least* the most important points. I missed the town hall and police station the other day, when emailing with a person from the city council about rights to their air photos. He was a bit disappointed that cafes and restaurants were there, but not the official buildings :) > Do we want something like town hall, pharmacy, pub and ATM on it. The > VIPs (very important points) so to speak? Or do we want every point like > feature which is not currently rendered? Like gate, speed trap and so on? Hmm. Ideally, maybe every point on the highest zoom? How much would that be? Probably a lot some places, not so much at other places... > I'd really appreciate feedback on this topic. Either here, or the [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > mailing list or in IRC. If I don't receive any feedback, I'm going to > assume that I have to find a better use for my time. > The online t&h and mapnik layers are the showcases for OSM for outsiders. The one thing that can impress people, is the level of detail we get. So I say it's good to have a layer with as much detail as possible. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
