I'm guessing Google is not only using POIs, but several other sources, like geo Tweets, got tagged photos put up on Google+, and so on. I think they are trying to make it easy for tourists to find the "in" spots where something is happening. If you're trying to find a nice restaurant, night club, pub or something like that, zoom in to the yellow area.
Janko pon, 8. kol 2016. u 12:39 Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch> napisao je: > Using colors like this is an excellent idea, however we shall not rely > on colors alone as several percent of people cannot distinguish colors > due to color blindness [1]. Besides, color blindness may develop with an > advanced age, so no one is color-safe. > > We do not hear often about color blindness as people tend not to speak > about it. But in fact maybe up to ten percent cannot see differences > between certain colors at all. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness > > brgds > O.M. > > On 07.08.2016 1:43, Michał Brzozowski wrote: > > There has been an update to Google Maps styling [1] and I have to say, > > they left me impressed. > > The overall look is cleaner, which is very welcome after a series of > > disappointing changes, but the thing I consider very innovative is how > > buildings (and on lower zooms - areas) with lots of "activities" (i.e. > > POIs) are highlighted in beige. > > > > Now, traditional topo maps use building type attribute for this, eg. > > Polish ones use dark brown for public/retail buildings, orange for > > residential, violet for industrial and gray for everything else. > > Our (and I presume Google's no better) building type tagging is pretty > > sparse, so this is a no-go. > > > > I wonder whether somebody could cook up a proof of concept of this for > > OSM styling to see how it would work out. One may play with assigning > > different weights to POIs according to their type or perceived > > importance via Wiki{pedia|data} tags. > > > > Michał > > > > [1] > https://maps.googleblog.com/2016/07/discover-action-around-you-with-updated.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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