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[Guillaume F <marsguo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody,

I was wondering how the Points of Interest scope could be improved, and 
I can't find it on Launchpad.

For example, there is this bug : when you tap on an item and then on 
"See more", you see less because the button acts like a "back" button. I 
notice this on 2 bq E4.5 and the M10.

Also, the scope could be much more user-friendly, beautiful and usable 
if the grid was not a repetition of the same image. Would it be possible 
to add some differenciation, like a generic icon for restaurant, bus 
stop, bench or whatever? It would be even better to add a photo but I 
don't think OSM supports this.

In my area, Yelp is not reliable at all. For example, I see restaurants 
that have been closed for at least 6 years on Yelp and I can't do 
anything about that, so the NearBy scope is mostly useless for me (also, 
I have a medieval castle in my town and it does not even show in the 
monuments nearby!). That's why I really like OSM and prefer to use the 
OSM scope rather than the NearBy/Yelp one.

Yesterday there was yet another great uNav release which makes full use 
of OSM data. Would it be possible/desirable to sort of "merge" the 
Points of Interest scope into uNav, which is becoming much more than a 
GPS navigator? What do you think?

Thanks to the Point of Interest scope and uNav, I started contributing 
to OSM and it's very easy. I'm not a developer so I can't do much more 
than that, but that's a start!

Thanks to everyone involved, in the Ubuntu world and beyond!


Guillaume