OSM could use as Michał suggested Wiki{pedia|data} tags. There is also
/wikimedia_commons/ [1] tag and geographical coordinates from Wikipedia
articles themselves easily available via MediaWIki API.
I wrote a web-application which displays either Wikipedia articles on
the map, or OSM Wiki{pedia|data|/media_commons/} tags as clickable
markers with a link to a respective article, category, file, wikidata
entry: http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/ . It works for all language
versions of Wikipedia.
Certainly if used on the main OSM map this data should be cashed.
Edifices which have a Wikipedia article could be shown in a distinctive
color too and have a small clickable icon with the letter "w" inside
leading to a respective article, category, file, wikidata entry.
I would be even better than Google Maps as in Wikimedia categories and
articles we can publish nowadays also HD videos of a building with
aerial footage, so that one can see a building on the OSM map and then
as if fly around it to view better [2].
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikimedia_commons
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyon_Castle (select HD resolution
1080P in player)
brgds
O.M.
On 08.08.2016 15:19, Janko Mihelić wrote:
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 <mailto: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
>
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