pianos
Consumer and social
public pianos map
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
4 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 17 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score -0.23.
Execution: 2 for, 15 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
Objections
Many listed pianos are outdated or no longer exist
From 2 comments
Definitely seems like a lot of false positives. Lots of pianos in my neighborhood (Brooklyn NY) that no way exist
mr-ron on HNUseless: All the pianos it has for my city were only there for one time events.
Traubenfuchs on HN
Search and map UX is confusing
From 2 comments
This is a great idea, but the UX feels difficult: - If I search, I get local results. But expanding the map should bring in more results. After all, I can start with the world…
codingdave on HNLove the idea. But there's a snag. If I search for my town, I get a lot of “likely not available (last seen years ago)”. If I click on “recent”, I get entries from all over the…
Timwi on HN
Data quality issues such as wrong countries and false positives
From 3 comments
Data seems not to be consisent. If you click on Germany from the countries tab, it only shows 4 pianos for whole Germany and e.g. not the one in Berlin Stralau.
moehm on HNWait, this is not what pianos look like :P https://pianos.pub/piano/656b258f
hkc on HNBroken pianos make the cut: https://pianos.pub/piano/2f90254f
doobiedowner on HN
Database too small in some areas
From 1 comment
Love it, but I wish it's database was bigger. I live a bit outside Boston, MA, and it brought up 2 results: one on martha's vinyard (a small island off the coast of cape cod) and…
spicybright on HN
Requests
Fix map and search usability
From 2 comments
This is a great idea, but the UX feels difficult: - If I search, I get local results. But expanding the map should bring in more results. After all, I can start with the world…
codingdave on HNI suggest you go for the smaller piano icons on the Leaflet map.
g0ran on HN
Add flagging for spam and bad entries
From 1 comment
A lot of spam, sadly. Flagging functionality needed…
throwaway290 on HN
Sync data with OpenStreetMap
From 2 comments
Seems like it could be a part of OSM. And indeed, there's "amenity=piano" [1], as well as "musical_instrument=piano", with overpass-turbo [2] even finding some pianos using the…
defanor on HNCould it be synced back to OSM so that people can submit in your nicer interface but it'll flow back into OSM? I'm honestly not super familiar how open OSM is for things like that.
dewey on HN
Questions
Why many pianos are marked likely not available
From 1 comment
Why do most of them have likely not available? Due to covid?
vkdelta on HN
Whether non-public pianos like airport security-area ones count
From 1 comment
Great idea! Small feedback: one of the pianos listed for Minneapolis is in Concourse C at the airport. While this is, in fact, an actual piano, you have to go through security to…
DarkContinent on HN
Alternatives named
OpenStreetMap piano tags and OpenPianosMap
From 3 comments
Seems like it could be a part of OSM. And indeed, there's "amenity=piano" [1], as well as "musical_instrument=piano", with overpass-turbo [2] even finding some pianos using the…
defanor on HNOpenstreetmap has a tag for public pianos: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dpiano and a discussion: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=69772
femto on HNMap based on that data: https://www.mapcontrib.xyz/t/e5c83c-OpenPianosMap (via https://github.com/brunetton/OpenPianosMap)
C4K3 on HN
Piano Players Club
From 1 comment
Here’s my version of the same idea haha https://www.pianoplayersclub.com/
normcoreashore on HN
Wheelmap
From 1 comment
There's lots of prior art, such as https://wheelmap.org/ -- so I imagine OSM is somewhat open to this sort of thing. Might be worth looking at how Wheelmap edits OSM. I believe…
ancarda on HN