Neat! I think this is a great feature that makes our data easier for potential users and editors to see which makes it more obvious that we are more than just a pretty map.
One thing about tags: You might want to consider hiding some. Especially well known import related tags. I'm thinking specifically of the tiger:* tags we have here in the US but there might be others. They are obviously a formatting nightmare but they are also not really *our* data so excluding them from such a display might make sense. http://i.imgur.com/p9amuhk.png We're working on removing some of them (especially the long "tlid" one but they're going to be around for a while... Toby On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Roland Olbricht <roland.olbri...@gmx.de> wrote: > Dear all, > > have you ever been annoyed that Mapnik doesn't render a name for a street or > a pub, although you are interested in? > > The POI click feature for osm.org now has a public prototype: > http://overpass.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ > > Just click on the map somewhere and all the nearby named items are shown with > their tags. > > It follows the idea > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Top_Ten_Tasks#POI_inspection_tool_on_the_frontpage > > Before this moves to the main site, I would like to improve the usability as > much as possible. So I'm grateful for all feedback. > > For example: > > Are there places or zoom levels where interesting points are missing? Or > places where you get too much? > > Would you like some other formatting, more or less headlines, icons or > whatever to easier categorize the results? > > Would you like to see something different than the list of tags? > > Have you other observations or suggestions? For example, Pawel made some > technical observations that will give rise to improved speed for way-bbox > queries on future version of Overpass API. > > A few details: > > You may see three kinds of results. If there are few results, they are shown > immediately. If there are more results, they are shown as expandable > headlines. If there are no results or way too much results, an error message > is shown. > > The range depends on the zoom level, compensating for mouse position > inaccuracies. It is currently about 20 meters on zoom level 18 and doubles > with every zoom level. > > As an extra feature, if an element has a tag value starting with "http://";, > the headline of the element gets a hyperlink to the URL written in this tag > value. > > Cheers, > > Roland > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
