[Tagging] Photo links in OSM

[Tac Tacelosky]

Thanks for bringing up this topic, it's also something I'd like to revive.

In particular, when a new amenity is being added from one of our
panoramic photos from customstreetview.com, I'd like to provide a
reference back to that.  For example, here's a fitness center from an
area that has very little OSM data:

http://www.customstreetview.com/130427154457?heading=132.08&pitch=-3.96&zoom=2.00

There are several unmapped businesses along this street in what is to
me an iconic "small town" that I pass through regularly on my way to
my mom's house.   I'd love to see these photos used to populate more
of the map.  The UI we have for doing that now still needs some work,
but I'm pretty excited about the "Notes" feature, and may implement
that next.   That way, local mappers could still actually add the
nodes, but remote mappers can do some of the work of identifying
businesses in the photo and their rough locations.

Tac Tacelosky


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com> wrote:
> I'm interested in revisiting the issue of attaching links to photographs in
> OSM via tag.
>
> There's an ancient stale proposal at:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Image
> But no hint of why the proposal was abandoned, or any of the points of
> debate.
> There seems to be little "push" demand based for photos on taginfo:
>
> ---------
> photo=(5)
> image:flickr=(3)
> flickr=(18)
> image=(332)
> wikipedia:image=(12)
> wetap:photo=(108)
> source:image=Yahoo (200) (useless)
> FG:photo=(529) (useless)
>
> Open Street View and its mailing list kind of kick around:
> http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.photos
> ---------
>
> I contributed the 108 "wetap:photo" nodes. roughly 25% of the total images
> links in OSM.  You can view these as pink dots at http://www.wetap.org ).
>
> The downside issues seem similar to the website= tag, in that it could
> attract spam or inappropriate links.
> The upside is that it can make for richer mapping.  As URL links there is no
> server storage cost to the OSM project.
> Where do photo links stand?
>
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