[OSM-talk] POI display on osm.org

[Tom Hughes]

On 23/01/13 11:07, Paweł Paprota wrote:
> On 01/22/2013 09:35 AM, Ilya Zverev wrote:
>> Right now, in Roland's version, it isn't even clear that one should
>> click on the map to get information.
>
> In one of the EWG meetings "POI display" was split into two separate tasks:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Top_Ten_Tasks#Clickable_POIs_on_the_frontpage

Well that one seems wrong to me as it is approaching the issue from one 
of achieving feature parity with Google Maps, but as I have always 
understood it that has never been our goal.

> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Top_Ten_Tasks#POI_inspection_tool_on_the_frontpage

This is more where I think we should be going, and where the Overpass 
based system seems to be able to deliver.

Tom

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