ideas for linking our sites

[michelledeeney85]

I have a web app (still a work in progress) to find a bench to sit on, aimed at helping people who have mobility issues find a rest spot when out and about.
It uses openstreetmap data with the bench IDs.

I want to link to benches on your site via the openstreetmap bench id.

E.g. an extra link on the benches on my site "Memorial bench: click for more info" to link to the specific bench on your site.

This is my site:
https://michelledeeney85.github.io/bench-mark-web/

I have noticed you have an id for each bench (e.g. https://openbenches.org/bench/37936 )

So I am guessing that is the openstreetmap bench Id? That would make it very easy to link to your page.

Furthermore I was thinking I could add another link to your site to register a bench as a memorial bench (if it isn't alread registered) that goes to your Add Bench page.
That could be streamlined if you add an option for that page to pass in the geolocation and existing openstreetmap ID as URL params.

I think both of our sites would be improved by linking up (you would get more people adding memorial Benches via people using my site, and my site would have more info on the benches about whether they are memorial Benches)

What do you think about these ideas?
Do you have any more ideas about how we could link up?

I know you are on an open source license so I can just go ahead and do the links but I thought it may be a good idea to communicate with you about it first as you may have more ideas for collaboration.

Best wishes
Michelle

[edent]

Hi Michelle,
What a brilliant site you've created! OpenBenches is happy to help 😃

So I am guessing that is the openstreetmap bench Id?

It is not an OSM identifier. The bench ID is our own ID. At the moment, we don't link to OSM - although some OSM benches link to us.

I could add another link to your site to register a bench as a memorial bench (if it isn't alread registered) that goes to your Add Bench page.

Very happy for you to link to https://openbenches.org/add

That could be streamlined if you add an option for that page to pass in the geolocation and existing openstreetmap ID as URL params.

I'll look at a way to attach to an OSM ID, but we are primarily interested in collecting photos and inscriptions. So we ask users to upload a geotagged image. We're not interested in just a list of benches - OSM is a better place for that.

I know you are on an open source license so I can just go ahead and do the links but I thought it may be a good idea to communicate with you about it first as you may have more ideas for collaboration.

You are very welcome to use our data in line with the Creative Commons licence (BY-SA) - so you just need to say something like "Data provided by OpenBenches" and make sure you don't add any extra restrictions.

Let me know if we can be of any help integrating our data - or for anything else.

Thanks

Terence

[michelledeeney85]

Possibly the geo-tag could be a way to link, by matching the coordinates. If there is no match I could show it on my site as an extra entry on the map. (With credit to you of course)
It would double up as a way of finding extra benches that are not already on OSM, which would help my app's purpose in helping people find a nice place to sit down!