[OSM-talk] Ideas for OSM enhancements

[Nick Whitelegg]

----- Original Message ----
From: Laurence Penney <lorp at lorp.org>
To: Nick Whitelegg <nick150971 at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
Sent: Friday, 28 December, 2007 7:09:51 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for OSM enhancements

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
> 
>> A couple of ideas for enhancements on the OSM site - what do people 
>> think? If people think they're good ideas I'll try and find time to
 hack 
>> on them, though the next month might be a bit difficult.
> 
>> One would be to do something similar to what I already do on Freemap,
 
>> namely clickable POIs: The user could click on a POI then get a
 window 
>>containing a link to its Wikipedia article (if applicable) and its 
>> description tag (if it has one).

>Nice idea, but...

>I'd very much like to allow pop-up info windows on OSM for POIs that 
>are not Wikipedia articles - that's "not" as in "not yet" and "never 
>likely to be".

How about pubs?
There is beerintheevening.com, but they don't seem to as yet offer an API - maybe we should do our own which could link to pub nodes easily?

Nick








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