[OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

OSM could use as Michał suggested Wiki{pedia|data} tags. There is also 
/wikimedia_commons/ [1] tag and geographical coordinates from Wikipedia 
articles themselves easily available via MediaWIki API.

I wrote a web-application which displays either Wikipedia articles on 
the map, or OSM Wiki{pedia|data|/media_commons/} tags as clickable 
markers with a link to a respective article, category, file, wikidata 
entry: http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/ . It works for all language 
versions of Wikipedia.

Certainly if used on the main OSM map this data should be cashed. 
Edifices which have a Wikipedia article could be shown in a distinctive 
color too and have a small clickable icon with the letter "w" inside 
leading to a respective article, category, file, wikidata entry.

I would be even better than Google Maps as in Wikimedia categories and 
articles we can publish nowadays also HD videos of a building with 
aerial footage, so that one can see a building on the OSM map and then 
as if fly around it to view better [2].

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikimedia_commons
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyon_Castle (select HD resolution 
1080P in player)

brgds
O.M.

On 08.08.2016 15:19, Janko Mihelić wrote:
> I'm guessing Google is not only using POIs, but several other sources, 
> like geo Tweets, got tagged photos put up on Google+, and so on. I 
> think they are trying to make it easy for tourists to find the "in" 
> spots where something is happening. If you're trying to find a nice 
> restaurant, night club, pub or something like that, zoom in to the 
> yellow area.
>
> Janko
>
> pon, 8. kol 2016. u 12:39 Oleksiy Muzalyev 
> <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch <mailto:oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>> 
> napisao je:
>
>     Using colors like this is an excellent idea, however we shall not rely
>     on colors alone as several percent of people cannot distinguish colors
>     due to color blindness [1]. Besides, color blindness may develop
>     with an
>     advanced age, so no one is color-safe.
>
>     We do not hear often about color blindness as people tend not to speak
>     about it. But in fact maybe up to ten percent cannot see differences
>     between certain colors at all.
>
>     [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness
>
>     brgds
>     O.M.
>
>     On 07.08.2016 1:43, Michał Brzozowski wrote:
>     > There has been an update to Google Maps styling [1] and I have
>     to say,
>     > they left me impressed.
>     > The overall look is cleaner, which is very welcome after a series of
>     > disappointing changes, but the thing I consider very innovative
>     is how
>     > buildings (and on lower zooms - areas) with lots of "activities"
>     (i.e.
>     > POIs) are highlighted in beige.
>     >
>     > Now, traditional topo maps use building type attribute for this, eg.
>     > Polish ones use dark brown for public/retail buildings, orange for
>     > residential, violet for industrial and gray for everything else.
>     > Our (and I presume Google's no better) building type tagging is
>     pretty
>     > sparse, so this is a no-go.
>     >
>     > I wonder whether somebody could cook up a proof of concept of
>     this for
>     > OSM styling to see how it would work out. One may play with
>     assigning
>     > different weights to POIs according to their type or perceived
>     > importance via Wiki{pedia|data} tags.
>     >
>     > Michał
>     >
>     > [1]
>     https://maps.googleblog.com/2016/07/discover-action-around-you-with-updated.html
>     >
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