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Clustering issues

Open rakoo opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

Hey there, thanks a lot for your tool it is amazing. I've been dreaming for a tool like this for a long time because so much information is already in openstreetmaps, and surfacing it is the way we want is the best way to make it useful.

I started to build a map for surfacing LGBTQI+ friendly places: https://mapcomplete.org/theme.html?userlayout=https%3A%2F%2Fstudio.mapcomplete.org%2F13533153%2Flayers%2Flgbtqi_friendly%2Flgbtqi_friendly.json

My problem is that I don't want to show only friendly places, I also want to display "uncategorized" places so we can change them if need be. This means there must be a way to select them, so my filter is amenity != OR shop != which is a lot. When zooming out the display becomes messy: clustering doesn't seem to kick in and absolutely all the places have a pin. Go to a relatively big city and you'll hear your CPU fan spinning.

What I'd like to see is not just clustering (I don't know if it's broken here or if conditions just aren't met), but a dynamic clustering that partitions points in different buckets: in my case, a bucket for "uncategorized" places, and another one for "categorized" places. The effect will be that "uncategorized" places get clustered because there's just so many, and "categorized" places aren't, not because they're special, but because they are so few. That would provide the 2 features I'm interested in: see the "categorized" places and make them stick out, and still allow "uncategorized" places to be changed.

Is that something interesting enough ?

rakoo avatar Jul 23 '24 15:07 rakoo