[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - information=qr_code

[Timothy Noname]

Where I live there are often QR codes on marked trails that contain links
to audio clips, such as bird songs you might hear.

On Wed, 22 Jun 2022, 11:01 Volker Schmidt, <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is an intetesting but confusing subject.
> In my little world I have occasionally come across tourism-related QR
> codes. They were part of larger printed information boards, often showing
> maps. In those cases no stickers, but maps with QR code in the corner. Most
> likely the URL brings you to a picture of the board showing the QR code of
> the map ...
>
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2022, 11:23 stevea, <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:
>
>> There is a complex intersection of bicycle routes in my county, where to
>> “go there” means to (somewhat un-intuitively) “turn here” and it is where
>> north is sort of south and east and west are also sort of south and north
>> and regional turns into local, but only if you turn in THAT direction.  (My
>> county has been called “the vortex of the universe”).  Briefly, the
>> countywide (local) bicycle route numbering protocol (called CycleNet, which
>> accommodates regional numbered routes by not using them in the local
>> name/numberspace) was added to OSM, these display rather nicely in
>> OpenCycleMap layer, and a QR code was made to represent this intersection,
>> as displayed at close zoom in OCM (ahhh, just right for a cyclist confused
>> by the turns and directions / destinations).  Then this QR code was printed
>> on a sticker and this sticker with the QR code stuck to the bike route /
>> destination sign (post?) with “Bike Here!” printed above/below the QR
>> code.  (It might have had some packaging tape “sealed” over the top to
>> laminate it as rain protection:  it won’t last forever, but it will last
>> after the first rain!)
>>
>> A (potentially lost) cyclist, confused even by the signs (and their
>> compass / GPS…) sees “Bike (QR code) Here!” on a bike route sign, scans it,
>> discovers it is a sort of “You are Here” map, seeing bright red, purple and
>> blue lines representing national, regional and local bike routes (and how
>> to turn, obviously) displayed on their smart phone.  Smiles and correct
>> turn-lane selections ensue, plans are made with confidence about where to
>> lunch at the next town….
>>
>> Thanks, Clifford, you have inspired me and we seem to agree yet again:
>> I’d be tempted to tag this
>>
>> tourism=information + information=qr_code
>> qr_code=map
>> map_rendering=open_cycle_map
>>
>> This might be improved, but the nuts and bolts are there to build what
>> seems to be needed to express “what this is in the map.”
>>
>>
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