On 18/10/2009 12:01, John Smith wrote: > 2009/10/18 Mike N. <nice...@att.net>: >>> From there if an API could be created for editors we could do things >>> like mousing over a tag in JOSM/potlatch then throws up a page of text >>> describing the tag. >>> >>> Any tags the are entered that aren't in the database could generate a >>> prompt asking people to document it on the spot, alternatively we >>> could have a suggestion engine by searching both tag names and in the >>> descriptions and seeing if something similar already exists and they >>> could choose to use that instead. >> I agree with this - someone else described a system of meta-tags for tags, >> integrated into the editors to make it easy to locate the tag you're >> thinking of by subject, possibly even in the local language. The editors >> could even hide the 'official English tag' used internally by OSM. Less >> common local items could be in a language other than English. > > That's a good point, having some kind of API for tags would make it > possible to have translations with very little extra effort from a > programming point of view.
Indeed. See my message from earlier this month: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-October/043340.html David _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
