feature: selectable POI's

[nickma82]

What I would like to do Click on a POI on the map and get additional information (as phone#, webpage, ...) in the side panel

How I do it now I don't see an option to get that information but to enable the 'debug' [MapData]. Or access a nother viewer.

In order to solve this I would suggest

• Implement an additional Checkbox: [Layer] -> "Activate Overlay" -> [Selectable POI's]
• OR a complete POI-type filter list (whith the ability to highlight selected POI's)

Note: A Permalink implementation

[drolbr]

Feel free to ask questions about http://overpass.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org

It does roughly what you want, but I never managed to do all the UI suggestions that came from that prototype, see http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/POI_display

[Rezonansowy]

I suggest also 'What's this' feature, see how Google implemented this. Can someone mark this as 'enhancement'?

[Rezonansowy]

I made a mockup. It's similar to this from Google, however my is a little more clear. Note: I know that's not a POI. I think cities and regions should be selectable as well, not becuase of copying google :) .

[Rezonansowy]

I strongly support this feature on OSM, it will make a much better experience with exploring the map.

[tomhughes]

That's going too far I think - what we're looking at is just a way to access the existing data browser view for an object, not a new pretty google style box that pulls in data from external sources. That's something that an end-user web site might want to do, but it's not really what we aim to do - we are trying to support mappers that want to see the underlying data.

[tomhughes]

I realised the link above is still to the original version - the current prototype is http://overpass2.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/

[danstowell]

I like the overpass2 prototype! Is there a place for notes/feedback on it?

Before I forget, I note here:

• In the list that gets shown, why are the links all black-and-not-underlined? The user is given the impression that the list is just a list, not a list of active hoverable/clickable items. If they look like links people will notice the functionality.
• This feature would really suit being available on a right-click menu. That enhancement can easily come later, as a second wave improvement - see #251. (Also would be nice for #716 routing feature. So I think if those two things happened, we'd have a pretty compelling little right-click menu :))

[Rezonansowy]

@tomhughes The only new thing is a short fragment of Wikipedia article, everything else comes from OSM database. IMO this isn't so redundant. Thanks for prototype!

[Rezonansowy]

Here's short mockup of selectable links.

[tomhughes]

@danstowell Can we not go round that whole circle again please... Nobody stepped up to do the whole integrated right click thing so we are going to be merging both overpass and routing more or less as is for now... The overpass thing is based on a branch in my repo so https://github.com/tomhughes/openstreetmap-website/issues is best place to open issues.

[danstowell]

@Rezonansowy the osm.org map is one of our main "shop windows" so I like your motivation. However as @tomhughes says, the purpose of the osm.org map is really importantly to help mappers to map - try not to think of it as a purely user-focussed map like google's is. Definitely drop the wikipedia blurb. It's good to think about usability, but usability for the right group

[Rezonansowy]

@danstowell Do we have some service for people who just want to use this map? This site has many user-focused features already, so that's why I had this idea. Many users use this site just same like google.com/maps

[danstowell]

@tomhughes that's good news, thanks. My impression about the right-click was it was lack of agreement not lack of implementation. I shall wait for the merges before considering stepping up!

[danstowell]

@Rezonansowy we are a volunteer community, and we tend to rely on third parties to make pretty things out of our beautiful data. Lots of mapping companies have done so. We don't have the developer/sysadmin resources to run lots of services

[Rezonansowy]

@danstowell Of course, I know. Most of volunteer community have ugly UIs but you're exception - osm.org is very nice and user-friendly website(!), that's why many users switched from Google Maps. I think, we have to think about some user-friendly in all cases. This site showed me that tech and user sides can be combined. What about the rest of my mockup?

[danstowell]

@Rezonansowy first, I should emphasise that I'm not one of the main developers here, I just try to contribute where I can, so don't take my word as final! Having said that: your mockup looks OK but I'm afraid there's not much that anyone can say about it without an actual implementation to consider, since there are so many questions that a single screen mockup can't answer. I'm sorry if that isn't helpful feedback.