[OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Tobias Knerr wrote:
> Overall, image selection is an editorial task, and therefore not suited
> for OSM.

Yes but let's view this the other way round. Say someone is making a 
cool OSM based application for their little town/village and they want 
to store some image links in OSM - would that be bad? Let them make 
whatever decisions they must make about deep linking and whatnot.

This is often forgotten but we used to recommend to users that if they 
want to map something which is likely of no interest to others, they 
could do so by putting their username in front of the key, like

johndoe:image_link=...

What I'm saying is, yes I don't think that we should start a "project of 
the month" encouraging everyone to put in image links everywhere; our 
core project is making a map and ideally the image databases of this 
would would have an API where you can quickly request images for a 
certain location. But if someone *wants* to do it, then we certainly 
shouldn't tell him to stop.

Bye
Frederik

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