[OSM-talk-be] POIs

[André Pirard]

Hi,

FYI, in order to promote the OSM background I have shown this map
<http://www.papou.byethost9.com/maps/OpenLayers_Vector_fast.html?> to
various organization, saying that

 1. their POIs can be introduced in the OSM map itself
 2. if a Web site maintains a simple POI text file like this
    <http://www.papou.byethost9.com/maps/Red_Cross/POIs.txt>, other
    sites can include that POI list in their own map, mixed with their
    own POIs (for example, map of blood donation centers combined with
    public transport and car sharing to access the centers)

(1) raised absolutely no interest
(2) interested one organization:  three weeks later, they had pirated
the idea and made their own POI map based on Google Maps (a big leap off
their former PDF file ;-)).

While roving about for this, I came across a site Click2map
<http://www.click2map.com/>.
I asked them if they could support OSM and their reply was the usual,
most polite

> We currently only support Google Maps tiles.
> We may in the future propose also OpenStreetMap tiles.
But now, I wonder if those people could not be interested in using OSM
not only as tiles but also as the POI database itself.  I'm letting
anyone versed in POIs to ponder over this idea, and maybe design some
scheme and present it to Click2map <http://www.click2map.com/> and
possibly others.
Having such POI providers affiliated with OSM would of course be a
definite plus for OSM.

Cheers,

André.

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