[OSM-talk] Storing extensive notes on points of interest in OSM?

[Stefan Baebler]

How about normal URLs?
Your offline, mobile app can easily grab the pages for offline use.

And in case of links to wikipedia.org anyone can edit them (when online).
Why bother creating own system (attracting editors, fighting spam...)
when one, with a friendly license already exists.

Heck, you could additionally also grab geopositioned articles from the
wikipedia and include them even if there is no POI in OSM DB.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Coord

Stefan

On Dec 5, 2007 2:04 PM, Milenko <milenko at king-nerd.com> wrote:
> I like this idea.  How about a wiki of some kind.  The link it the database
> could simply point to a corresponding page on a wiki.  Maybe
> poi.wiki.openstreetmap.org?  Or at least some kind of page that's editable
> by anyone, has a main web interface for viewing in a full browser, and then
> maybe an xml feed or mobile version of the same page for integration into a
> sidebar like Nick developed.
>
> -Jeremy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Stubbs" <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk>
> To: "Nick Whitelegg" <nick at hogweed.org>
> Cc: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Storing extensive notes on points of interest in
> OSM?
>
>
> > On 04/12/2007, Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org> wrote:
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> One thing I'd like to do on Freemap (and have already implemented the
> >> code to
> >> do) is to display information about a point of interest, such as a
> >> village,
> >> pub or peak, when the user clicks on it. You can get an idea of the sort
> >> of
> >> thing I mean by going to Freemap (http://www.free-map.org.uk) and
> >> clicking on
> >> a village or hill; at the moment, all that comes up is a panel on the
> >> left
> >> hand side which links to that POI's Wikipedia article (if any). However
> >> what
> >> I'd like to do is to display notes about that POI.
> >>
> >> Do people think this information (e.g. description of a pub, or a hill)
> >> should
> >> go in OSM itself (there'd probably have to be some other tag besides
> >> "note",
> >> as note is usually used for surveying notes) or should another database
> >> be
> >> set up, which links to OSM via OSM IDs?
> >>
> >
> > If you want to heavily format the description and if it's possible to
> > go to several kb then I'd probably keep it out purely because editing
> > it would be a pain. It's more likely you'll get accidental corruption
> > etc.
> >
> > On the other hand if it's just "This is a nice pub. Try the xyz ale.
> > Has a playground out back" then I'd put it in the db.
> >
> > If you choose not to put it in the main db then I'd at least put the
> > link/your id in the db -- the osm id can change if people
> > delete/copy/recreate and you might find it hard to track things. A
> > better plan might be to add a tag along the lines of
> > freemap_notes=http://www.free-map.org.uk/notes/things
> >
> > Something that simple is more likely to be preserved... and you might
> > find mappers editing the map following the links to your site :-)
> >
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