[Talk-ca] Proposed features/soccer field - OpenStreetMap

Yves Moisan yves.moisan at boreal-is.com
Fri Oct 2 15:54:36 BST 2009


> 
> I think you have everything tagged properly.  A possible change would
> be playground --> pitch, but the rendering challenge remains.  That
> makes this a "rendering problem for a specific use case" I think.
> Without broad support, whatever the rendering solution, it is less
> likely to be adopted for the default map on osm.org.  So as alpine ski
> pistes are not shown on osm.org, but are seen on openpistemap.org,
> perhaps your rendering solution will be seen on openSoccerClubMap.org
> ?
> 
> Slovakia freemap shows different local rendering on a default basemap.
>  openSoccerClubMap.org might be similar?
> http://www.freemap.sk/
> 
> As James suggests, with a local "layer" of some sort over the base
> map, you might add Web 2.0 whiz-bang stuff.

Right.  Relying on onHover could be a useful feature for a local club's
website, but I need a way to render the most information on a printable
map that my soccer organisation can do a Print Screen of and shove into
their coach's manual.  

Thanx for ideas folks.

Yves





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