[Talk-GB] Mapping murals & mosaics

[Tom Chance]

On 4 June 2012 15:28, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

> The nice folk at OpenPlaques have drawn my attention to the London
> Mural Preservation Society's map:
>
>   http://londonmuralpreservationsociety.com/
>
> which uses OSM, but with (presumably) their own data overlaid.
>
> It occurs to me that we could be mapping murals directly in OSM. We
> already have the 'artwork' tag, and could use, say, artwork=mural.
>
> Thoughts?


No reason why not, just effort and the question of whether it's worth it.

I imagine they would need a helping hand to download the data via a XAPI
server and process it to be used on their web site. At the moment they
appear to hardcode the mural locations for the map in a string embedded
into the page HTML.

As they carry some nice pages with further info for each mural, which
couldn't really all be stored in OSM, they'd still need a way of keeping
their own data and then linking it to OSM objects, perhaps with their own
tag. At which point they might wonder - what's the point?

Regards,
Tom

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