[OSM-talk] Overlay showing wikipedia links

Ed Avis eda at waniasset.com
Fri Oct 2 13:22:59 BST 2009


andrzej zaborowski <balrogg <at> gmail.com> writes:

>>>http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp
>>
>>>* The first picture from every wikipedia page is displayed.

>>It would be better to show the first non-map picture.  That would either
>>require Wikipedia to tag their images somehow, or require the script to
>>guess which images look more like maps.

>One problem is this would have to work in javascript, or be
>preprocessed on the server -- in the latter case there are more
>interesting things that we can do like use flickr geotagged pictures.

Hmm yes I don't fancy doing image analysis in Javascript.

>Maybe jpg's should
>be preferred over png's because png's are more often computer drawn,
>things like maps :)

Yes I think that would be an improvement.

You might also try biasing towards larger image sizes (either in dimensions
or in disk space), since these are more likely to be photographs.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>





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