Hi. I'd like to put the discussion of Roland's POI feature in
perspective. Last month the team of openstreetmap.ru released their
version of POI search and display engine. Check out the screenshot:
http://shtosm.ru/pictures/osmrupoi.gif and another one:
http://not.textual.ru/zverik/2/3/osmrupoi-fortalk.gif
There is a catalogue of POI types (a lot like on other sites, flosm.de
and such), when you check one or more, markers appear on the map. When a
marker is clicked, a popup appears with relevant tags translated into
russian: name, opening_hours (parsed), address (using reverse
geocoding), cuisine for restaurants, operator, website etc. Alas,
everything is in Russian with translations neither available nor
planned, and it works only for Russia. You can check it out at
http://openstreetmap.ru/#layer=M&zoom=14&lat=57.81758&lon=28.32691 (open
«Точки интереса (POI)» tab on the left).
I'd like to expect something no less spectacular and useful on the
openstreetmap.org. Right now, in Roland's version, it isn't even clear
that one should click on the map to get information.
IZ
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