<div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br><br></div>Janko<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">pon, 8. kol 2016. u 12:39 Oleksiy Muzalyev <<a href="mailto:oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch">oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch</a>> napisao je:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Using colors like this is an excellent idea, however we shall not rely<br>
on colors alone as several percent of people cannot distinguish colors<br>
due to color blindness [1]. Besides, color blindness may develop with an<br>
advanced age, so no one is color-safe.<br>
<br>
We do not hear often about color blindness as people tend not to speak<br>
about it. But in fact maybe up to ten percent cannot see differences<br>
between certain colors at all.<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness</a><br>
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brgds<br>
O.M.<br>
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On 07.08.2016 1:43, Michał Brzozowski wrote:<br>
> There has been an update to Google Maps styling [1] and I have to say,<br>
> they left me impressed.<br>
> The overall look is cleaner, which is very welcome after a series of<br>
> disappointing changes, but the thing I consider very innovative is how<br>
> buildings (and on lower zooms - areas) with lots of "activities" (i.e.<br>
> POIs) are highlighted in beige.<br>
><br>
> Now, traditional topo maps use building type attribute for this, eg.<br>
> Polish ones use dark brown for public/retail buildings, orange for<br>
> residential, violet for industrial and gray for everything else.<br>
> Our (and I presume Google's no better) building type tagging is pretty<br>
> sparse, so this is a no-go.<br>
><br>
> I wonder whether somebody could cook up a proof of concept of this for<br>
> OSM styling to see how it would work out. One may play with assigning<br>
> different weights to POIs according to their type or perceived<br>
> importance via Wiki{pedia|data} tags.<br>
><br>
> Michał<br>
><br>
> [1] <a href="https://maps.googleblog.com/2016/07/discover-action-around-you-with-updated.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://maps.googleblog.com/2016/07/discover-action-around-you-with-updated.html</a><br>
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