John Smith: > the wiki allows > people to easily document things, but you can't easily find them and > I'm talking about everyone here, especially those that are only likely > to use the map features page.
Can you give an example here? I actually don't know what situation you are thinking about. Answering "what does tag x mean" is easy. "How do I tag y" can usually be answered using the wiki search (or browser search on Map Features). Tags that can used in addition to a given feature/tag are listed, too, and it's not that hard to just manually add a new tag there. So what's missing here? >>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. Why do we need an API for this? The wiki pages already have standardized names and standardized templates, so it should be possible to extract information from there. > Any tags the are entered that aren't in the database could generate a > prompt asking people to document it on the spot, Considering that ambiguous tag definitions are probably the worst tagging problem we have to deal with in the long run, I'm not sure whether the definitions created this way wouldn't cause more problems than they would solve. Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
