[OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

[Frankie Roberto]

2009/9/29 Gregory Williams <gregory.williams at purplegeodesoftware.co.uk>


> > Ian Dees wrote:
> > >
> > http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/flickr_now_supports_openstreetmap_
> > tags.php
> > >
> > > Good to see someone else talking about OSM...
> > >
> > Excellent news
>
> Indeed this is fantastic news. Having that extra metadata will be very
> useful, and it'll start to get OSM seen by a whole new audience that
> haven't
> yet heard about us. Now I've just got to start applying tags to my 3000 odd
> Flickr photos. This may take some time...
>

Yay! I'm pleased to say that I had a small hand in helping this to happen
(mainly by pestering Aaron with dorky ideas), as mentioned in the Flickr
Code blog post [1]. You can see my set of Manchester buildings, some of
which have now been machine-tagged here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frankieroberto/sets/72157614972426670/

I'd love it if other people started adding the tags too, if only to prove
that I'm not the only one who likes this idea (and who likes taking photos
of random buildings).

The 'stability' of way/node/relation IDs is something worth considering.
Personally, I think that they're "stable enough" for use in this kind of
loosely-joining things way (and indeed our wiki is full of references to
specific IDs), but there are some implications, particularly for bulk data
imports.

I also think this Flickr-linking might be a good prompt for us to re-look at
the /browse/* pages. If these pages are going to be more visible, perhaps we
could look at improving the user-experience of them (eg by parsing out
addresses from addr:* tags, or by linking to Wikipedia pages more
prominently, or perhaps even by including photos from Flickr).

I'm not sure what the state of the User Experience Working Group is, but I'd
be happy to join and help with this, if people think it's a good idea.
(Personally, I think the scope for OSM to be a provider of linked-data POIs
is huge, but I'll admit it's a bit of a departure from making maps).

Frankie

[1]
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/09/28/thats-maybe-a-bit-too-dorky-even-for-us/
-- 
Frankie Roberto
Experience Designer, Rattle
0114 2706977
http://www.rattlecentral.com
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