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Rudloff / openvegemap

Find vegetarian and vegan restaurants in your city
https://openvegemap.netlib.re/
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Consider adding description feature to restaurants #58

Closed ethorsoe closed 5 years ago

ethorsoe commented 5 years ago

While it may not fit the model of storing all the data in openstreetmap, it would be a important feature to have a way to store descriptions of the restaurants somewhere, not all of them have even webpages you can link to.

Rudloff commented 5 years ago

Hello, There is a description tag on OSM: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:description I don't know if it is frequently used, but we could add support for it.

dimqua commented 5 years ago

Would be nice, especially if support for it can be added to OVM editor as well.

ethorsoe commented 5 years ago

I missed that there are already https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cuisine and https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:diet tags supported, just they were missing on some of the restaurants I checked. What is severely lacking is the diet tag missing support for mostly in addition to the current yes, no and only.

As these are descriptions of commercial services there were also notes forbidding the use of descriptions as ads, which might also be relevant here. Besides the clearly subjective ratings on eg. google maps or happy cow that OSM probably does not want, I guess we'll need to think what is the expressions that we can't currently do.

Rudloff commented 5 years ago

Yes, descriptions are for strictly objective information. That's why I'm reluctant to add it to the editor, I'm worried inexperienced contributors will add descriptions that don't fit the OSM rules. I would prefer to only add simple yes/no questions to the editor.

For subjective reviews, we are planning on integrating https://lib.reviews/: https://github.com/Rudloff/openvegemap-cordova/issues/7

dimqua commented 5 years ago

Is there any free (as a beer, at least) API that we can use to fetch strictly objective information? I guess, not.

I personally do not care much about subjective reviews (they're often too subjective or useless), but even not-so-objective descriptions are better than nothing, IMHO.

Rudloff commented 5 years ago

I will add support for the description tag in OVM, but not in the editor (at least for now). That way, if OSM contributors add descriptions for restaurants, we will display them.

dimqua commented 5 years ago

Nice! What are you going to display by default: English version of the description or localized version?

Rudloff commented 5 years ago

I'm only displaying description= for now, according to the OSM wiki, it should be in the local language.