[Talk-is] Ferðamennska og POI upplýsingar

[Jóhannes Birgir Jensson]

I was not thinking of osmAnd since I'm still a couple of weeks away from 
even being able to use it. Blackberry users (pre-10) get no fun.

The maintenance is easier using Points, deleting them does not wipe out 
a structure as an area would. For shops that move a bit about and open 
up and close down quickly I see points as the perfect solution.

I save areas for more permanent fixtures like schools which will be 
there for decades.

Luckily I think bars/clubs are at the extreme end of the spectrum, their 
time to live is very small, most shops outlast them, even if some only 
by a dogs breath.

As for "us" maintaining it, the prudent thing is to outsource it to the 
associations themselves surely, as far as we are able to!

--Jói


Þann 30.9.2013 16:43, skrifaði Karl Palsson:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 02:28:09PM +0100, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote:
>> Er ekki málið að allar verslanir séu merktar sem POI (en ekki area?).
> No.  It's been said repeatedly not to change the map to deal with software that can't handle things.
> If osmAnd and friends can't show me "nearby shops" when they are areas, then the right thing to do is
> fix osmand!
>
> Of course, I'm guilty of doing this for all the bars/clubs, mostly because they points were there long
> before the areas were, and if you delete a point and replace it with an area, you lose any foreign key
> mapping that an external application may have had :)
>
> The other reason I've done this is because there wasn't any good way (when I started) of placing multiple
> types on the same area, for things like hotels and the hotel bar and the hotel restaraunt.
>
> Finally, really?! You're going to maintain _every_ shop in town as a PoI? It's difficult enough staying
> on top of the bars!
>
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