[OSM-talk] POI layer for Tiles at home

[Milenko]

A POI types layer would be pretty nice to have. Maybe 3 or 4 basic
categories like food/drink, government, shops, etc.  Of course this would
mean 3 or 4 times the tiles to store unless some trickery could be employed
to let the browser render the icons in the proper places on the map.

-Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org]
On Behalf Of Mark Williams
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:58 AM
To: Simon Ward; OSM-Talk Openstreetmap
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] POI layer for Tiles at home

Simon Ward wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:47:26AM +0100, vegard wrote:
>> The online t&h and mapnik layers are the showcases for OSM for outsiders.

>> The one thing that can impress people, is the level of detail we get. So
I
>> say it's good to have a layer with as much detail as possible.
> 
> or a layer that allows you to select what POIs to display (although a
> long list of POIs might be a little unwieldy).
> 
> Simon
> 
+1

A list of POI types, rather than individual POI's then.
The extant http://www.lenz-online.de/cgi-bin/osm/osmpoinit.pl/
site is very good, and needs either borrowing or adopting!
It is definitely a good addition, but I can't remember the URL if I'm
out & about...

Mark


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