wlanslovenija / PiplMesh

A social info portal for wireless networks.
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Populate map with various Point Of Interest data #324

Open mitjap opened 11 years ago

mitjap commented 11 years ago

OpenStreetMap provides a way of extracting data from their maps. See link for information how to do that. Maybe a new task should be created that would fetch new data every day/week. User should be given an option to select what kind of point he would like to see on map. But I guess that would be for another ticket.

https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/15/getting-point-of-interest-data-from-openstreetmap

mitar commented 11 years ago

I believe also Google Maps could provide this data? So yes, good idea, should be researched a bit and find good data sources.

There are also sources which use user-contributed content.

For example, Wikipedia has a lot of content geotagged.