[OSM-talk] POI display on osm.org

[Tom Hughes]

On 23/01/13 13:48, Paweł Paprota wrote:
> On 01/23/2013 12:31 PM, Tom Hughes wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It also provides better user experience. Sure we can say that the main
> website is only for mappers and having no hit boxes on POI's is OK but
> then I guess I'd have to start questioning why do I keep spending all
> this time on improving history view if it's not really the goal for the
> main website to be usable...

Talk of "usable" is meaningless without saying what you want it to be 
usable for - who the target audience is.

Unless of course the argument is that the site should be able to do 
absolutely anything that a random visitor might ask of it - make tea? 
mind children? order books from amazon?

I don't see what this has to do with the history view either - being 
able to efficiently explore changes in an area is clearly something of 
huge interest and usefulness to mappers.

I also haven't questioned the usefulness of the POI stuff - just about 
whether different approaches have different audiences and are therefore 
of more or less interest to us.

Tom

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