So we could use the tag on different kinds of building.
This way people can discover a place in advance or simply view a place they have always wanted to see.
@starsep Thank you for your feedback and noticing the typo,
should be resolved now.
It would indeed be clearer with an underscore, and is also allowed according to the following wiki Any tags you like - OpenStreetMap Wiki
Will adjust it.
@osmuser63783 I looked at the link, there is no information in the posts whether any action has been taken. I also looked on the openstreetmap wiki and the like, but couldn’t find anything about a proposal for a similar tag… but thanks for mentioning it.
I tried to change the topic name so that it starts with [RFC] but I don’t see a button where I can change the topic name… possibly this is because I am at basic level on this forum.
If anyone can change this for me, please feel free to do so…
A wiki talk page has been created Virtual tour talk so the proposal will be discussed here on the forum as well as on the wiki.
In the wiki talk there is discussion about what exactly falls under a virtual tour
I looked up the definition of virtual tour and got the following result:
A virtual tour is a digital way to explore real places using videos, images, and other multimedia elements.
The main types are video tours, 360° panoramic tours, still photo tours, and floor plan tours.
Virtual tours involve combining visuals like photos and videos with interactive features to let users explore different views of a place.
Virtual tours, including 360° virtual tours, are commonly used in education, tourism, real estate, and more.
Virtual tours are flexible and can be repeated, but they lack sensory experiences and need basic computer skills.
The URL should work and deliver a virtual tour - what else do you need? You don’t put any content in OSM. Unless you are copying the URLs from a licensed collection?
I don’t think it’s necessary to give so many examples of unrelated tags for tourism=museum. Most of them seem completely unrelated to the proposed tag.
I’m also unsure about the part that says that the values page for tourism= and other tags would be affected. The proposal does not add to the list of values for tourism=.
I had looked at the wiki page Tag:tourism=museum#Useful_combination_tags and have included this in the example. Under the guise of it is better to have too much information than too little. If this causes confusion for others, I would be happy to correct it.
with Modifying existing pages: Value pages of Key:tourism ... I don’t mean the Key:tourism page, but only the pages that fall under Key:Tourism, so only a small mention in Tourism:museum, … that they can also use the tag: virtual_tour=url.
While that’s understandable it’s not always true, especially where it repeats things from other pages.
I think this comes down to features versus properties as mentioned in a reply to another post of yours. A museum is a feature in itself and its wiki page has lots of suggestions for someone wanting to map a museum. But virtual_tour is just a property adding detail to a feature. It is more comparable to, say, wikipedia= or website= than to tourism=museum.
The entire Kinds of virtual tours section is problematic. The text is verbatim copied from a source without proper attribution (only a small mark at the beginning of the section), which also creates an issue in tone that’s inappropriate for a wiki page. While the original article includes many subjective expressions and wants to relate to the reader, a proposal should be fact-based, subject-oriented, and clear.
Explaining the different types is fine, but please write each description in your own words. Any feedback beyond that is impossible at the moment.
I think the proposal section should just say what is proposed, i.e. A tag to add a link to a virtual tour to places such as museums, stores, hospitals et cetera.
The “applicable to database objects” part is tagging instruction for the tagging secion, I think.
The rationale section:
Sugg:
Many places provide a virtual tour online.
The tour is usually offered on the website, but a website tag does not tell the user that a virtual tour is available. The proposed tag links directly to the virtual tour.
Section “Kind of virtual tours”
Why not just place a link to the wikipedia article? This list of type does not help the proposal, unless you plan to add a subtype tag.
Section Tagging
Add virtual_tour=URL to the node, way or area representing the facility offering the virtual tour.
Then the one line table. I would leave out all the examples.
Maybe a line about whether to add it to the building outline or to an address node.
Section “Tagging museum example”
Not helpful for the proposal. You could (in the example section) just give the main tag defining the object as a museum, plus the name and website tag plus the virtual_tour tag with the url, for the example museum.
All the other museum tags are better placed on a wiki page about museums, I think.