[openstreetmap-website] Accessing object info by hovering (#961)

[Tom Hughes]

Don't think that's going to be possible - the load on overpass if we were constantly polling it as people moved around the map would be enormous. Plus at any given times there might be many different things "under the pointer" depending on exactly what your value of "under" is.

That's really why it is built the way it is, so that we can present a list of likely candidates. Early versions did try to use a (manually triggered) popup but it really doesn't work very well in an area with rich, dense data.

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