[OSM-talk] Linking Flickr to OSM, and back again, using machine tags

[Simone Cortesi]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 16:55, Adrian Brain <adrianpbrain at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> There are lots of other potential uses for machine tags which I haven't explored yet.
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> One day I can see POIs of amenity=slideshow, amenity=video, audio, gigapan or whatever.
> ( I used this idea for CoolIris too and it worked a treat when I put the link in. Yesterday it seemed the link had become a dead parrot. To be repaired, tweaked,removed shortly.)
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> Ain't OSM and Flickr just the best toys eveeerrrr?

machine tags flickr+osm are sure not so widespread in use yet, but
surely they are intriguing. Think of all the possibilities, like
layar, or geotagged images...

I agree with you, they will become more and more widely used as time goes :)

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