[talk-ph] Icons on POI's - Proposal
Ronny Ager-Wick
ronny at ager-wick.com
Sat May 24 21:38:32 UTC 2014
Totally agree, Eugene.
Much better with consistent data, with one way to tag a certain thing, than to
have different processes adapt to incorrect tags, regardless of how frequent.
Besides, anyone calling McDonalds a *restaurant* clearly needs to get out more! :)
Ronny.
On 25/05/14 04:44, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I think it would be better for all users of the data in the long run that
> the inconsistent name field is the one corrected instead of your system
> adjusting for it.
>
> Let's say that you have a "rule" that says that that name=McDonald's with
> amenity=fast_food gets the Golden Arches icon.
>
> Now let's say you have other rules that detect stuff that are probably
> McDonald's: name=McDonalds amenity=restaurant
>
> Instead of tagging stuff like this with an additional tag
> icon:ph=mcdonalds.png, it would be better to correct those POIs that don't
> follow the correct tagging. If you have a system that detects such
> near-misses, then I'm sure the community would like to get a list of them so
> that they can be corrected.
>
> I hope other mappers and users can chime in with their ideas.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Mark Cupitt <markcupitt at gmail.com
> <mailto:markcupitt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Folks, have been thinking about how we specify Icons for POI's in the
> Philippines OSM Map. I have Icons for most of the PH specific
> businesses, like Jollibee, Banks, and so on and would like to use them
>
> At the moment, the only way to do this is to run through the database
> checking the name tag and seeing if it starts with jollibee, BDO mcdo,
> etc. This is a very intensive effort on a million+ points. I am doing
> the code for it now and it has to be run on a very regular basis to pick
> up new POI'S from the daily diff updates. It also suffers form spelling
> errors, and fomat errors, for example "the jollibee" will to be
> identified as the name has to start with "jollibee" (in text string
> searches in postgres do not use indexes, and are too expensive on the
> database, so we have to assume that the name starts with the search text.
>
> I will publish the icons we have at some stage very soon where they can
> be viewed by anyone.
>
> To make it very easy to have granular control over icon display, I
> propose that we do the following:
>
> Add an icon:ph tag to nodes as they are created that contains the
> filename of the icon to display (from the list published)
>
> For example, a node of a Mcdonalds might have a tag amenity="fast_food"
> name="Mcdonalds Quezon City" and a icon:ph="mcdonalds.png"
>
> The system will first check if the icon:ph exists and use the icon
> specified in that. if not, it will fall back to database determined
> value done on a weekly or monthly basis, with all the inherent pitfalls
> in the use of the name field. If that does not work, it will display a
> generic icon which is a Red Dot.
>
> One big advantage of this proposal is that people can submit their own
> logos in icon form, they are easy to add to the system, them specify
> them for specific businesses, leisure, bars, etc. on the actual poi ..so
> the value added to the map will be tremendous in the future.
>
> Thoughts, flames, thumbs up, thumbs down, rounds of applause on this
> proposal very much appreciated ..
>
> Regards
>
> Mark Cupitt
>
> "If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence"
>
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>
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>
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