Are the POI's hard coded into the data or are they sent<br>to the end user from the outside server? I think some<br>POI's should be in the data, e.g. The Eiffel Tower, but<br>other stuff should come from another service based
<br>on the area being viewed and the choices of the user.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christoph Eckert</b> <<a href="mailto:ce@christeck.de">ce@christeck.de</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br>> Maybe I missed some examples ;) Concerning spam and links to URLs,<br>
> that's not exactly what I had in mind. Let's take my Eiffel Tower<br>> example again. I think it is a valuable data for openstreetmap, so I<br>> want to add it.<br><br>another approach was reverse geocoding. A map server that displays POIs
<br>can offer a link for the POI. Instead of hardcoding the URL into our<br>data, it can send the geocoords to another server and ask it for<br>resources.<br><br>Advantages:<br>* The map server can ask the geocoordinate server for i18n'ed resources,
<br>according to the browser's lang settings<br>* We do not need to enter all the URLs<br>* We do not need to maintain the URLs<br>* Maybe the map server can decide which domains are trustworthy<br>* We avoid spamming
<br><br>Example:<br><a href="http://www.geonames.org/export/wikipedia-webservice.html">http://www.geonames.org/export/wikipedia-webservice.html</a><br><br>Just my two cents,<br><br>ce<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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