[OSM-talk] Tagging of Viewpoints

[Mike Collinson]

At 10:54 PM 20/10/2007, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>Hi,
>
>    a good tourism map will often indicate viewpoints with a symbol 
>similar to this:
>
>http://www.scouts.ie/filestore/images/Viewpoint.gif
>
>and the symbol will be placed in the direction of view, and also 
>indicate the angular size of the view (may be only 90 degrees, or a full 
>360 degree panorama...)
>
>Any suggestions on how to tag this? We have tourism=viewpoint in our map 
>features, but no details. direction=<number>, angle=<number>?
>
>It would also be possible to draw viewpoints that don't have full 
>panorama as a three-point way, or a relation with three nodes, where one 
>is always the actual viewpoint and the others indicate the field of view...

I'd suggest that for *general* usage - i.e. trying to capture what is essentially an aesthetic/qualitative parameter, a description= plus optionally an (estimated) bearing= would be informative and easy to capture?  I already use description= on nearly all my viewpoints.

Mike
Stockholm