[OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2011/1/29 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
> 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.


If you look at the actual values you will find that lots of them don't
even allow to view any image, they seem to refer to local files (see
all those 80n-pictures).

http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/image#values

this one for instance (one of the first that contained a complete
link) isn't available:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/5/5a/K%C3%B6nig_Ludwig_Hinweis.JPG

I hardly found any working link in the values that provided useful
information. It is unlikely that many of the now linked images will be
still valid urls in 10 years time.

I agree though, that until now this has not been a problem, because of
such scarce usage of this tag.

cheers,
Martin