[Tagging] Photo links in OSM

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Tac Tacelosky <tacman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has the idea of an image archive for OSM been brought up before?  I
> know about openstreetview.org, but as far as I can see, it's mostly
> geotagged photos, there's not a lot of metadata there, nor integration
> explicitly with OSM.  Plus, the project seems to be inactive.


It comes down to cost and focus.

The cost, into perpetuity, of storing thousands of images is substantial.
 The organization would have to make that a priority.
Projects like openstreetview.org don't scale, and are not sustainable over
the long term.

Plus images from wikimedia commons satisfy a huge fraction of the current
use cases for images attached to osm objects
(need a picture of a particular castle?  Wikimedia commons probably has it).
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/attachments/20130623/752fb016/attachment.html>