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Hi - Newbie needs guidance. A few of us in the Boston tech startup community want to create a map showing the location of all the tech companies in Boston. OSM and tagging appear to be well-suited to this, but as a newbie I don't know where to start. Here are the things I know we want as an outcome:
It's not clear to me how to approach this tagging, since "technology office / company" isn't in the tag database, and I don't know if / how user-defined tags work. I assert that people in many cities / areas in the world may want to have a similar "map of all the tech companies in my town," so this might be a generally-useful tag to add in OSM's tag structure. (I suspect there will be more tech company employees adding such nodes to OSM than, say "(real) estate" companies (for which there is a tag). ;-) Note: I realize there's some ambiguity in what constitutes a "technology company." We can create some guidelines in this question thread, or (maybe better) in a separate discussion thread in the OSM Forum. Can somebody help get me started? Thanks in advance. |
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To get the normal, zooamble map, you could take and adopt the source code of the Locate Me prototype. For the tagging: No such category exists in OSM so far. You can invent a new tag and just use it, for example "company=tech_startup" or whatever else rather then bend an existing one. In general, it is easy to convert all objects of a certain tag to another tag later, but it is hard to disentagle different types of objects with the same tagging. For that reason, for more than a dozen objects, a new tag is highly appreciated. "company=*" ? Any reason to not reuse the "office" tag here ?
(16 Aug '13, 13:25)
Pieren
Not a particular reason. I flipped with http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org through the top 100 tags and found nothing suitable. As "office" has anyway "company" as most often appearing value, I suggest to follow the practice of key chaining (use the value of the more general key as special key, e.g. "type=route", "route=bus") and combine both: "office=company" + "company=tech_startup".
(16 Aug '13, 14:51)
Roland Olbricht
Also please document your new tag in the osm wiki for others to refer to. Also include any rules that you make up to whatever is a 'tech company'.
(19 Aug '13, 16:41)
Chaos99
Then almost all existing values of "office=" could be changed to "office=company" + "company=" like architects or lawyers. I think the tag is intended to present a long range of values, like eg 'shops'. So "office=tech_startup". And since we try to avoid abbreviations in tags because we are not all geeks, "office=technology_startup" is even better.
(21 Aug '13, 16:51)
Pieren
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