[OSM-talk] Prolification of the amenity tag

[Paul Youlten]

Marc Wick at GeoNames has mashed up those Yellowikis pages that have lat:lng
data with Google Earth.

(tip:you need to install Google Earth first)

http://www.geonames.org/kml/yellowikis.kml

PY

On 11/29/06, Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:48:46AM +0100, bvh wrote:
> > While this mail has been triggered by the proposal for
> > amenity="wifi", it is more about the amenities tag in general and
> > that is why I bring it up here instead of on the wiki.
> >
> > My take on the amenities tag is that recent proposals have drifted to
> > uses that are better served outside the openstreetmap database.
>
> We've been here before; see the thread starting at
> <20061003132522.96219.qmail at web30802.mail.mud.yahoo.com> /
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2006-October/007797.html
>
> I would very much like for OpenGuides (http://openguides.org/) and
> OpenStreetmap to interoperate in terms of providing data layers but
> sadly I don't have much time to devote to that at the moment. We do
> export lots of geo-tagged RDF though so if anyone fancies a project, a
> mashup that overlays OSM mapping data with our data, with hyperlinks,
> would be cool.
>
> If you turn on "Google maps" at
> http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/preferences.cgi
> and then visit pages in
> http://oxford.openguides.org/ - in particular
> http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?action=index;format=map
> you'll see OSM featured already.
>
> The difference is that OpenGuides focuses on a smallish communities
> compared to OSM; we have a project in the pipeline to provide a single
> portal frontend for aggregating data from various OpenGuides instances.
>
> Dominic.
>
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