Mike N.: > The case I run into is "How do I tag y" - the wiki is well laid out, but > the answer is often not as accessible as it should be. I tried to tag law > offices in a meaningful way. Searching for Lawyer, Legal, Barrister even in > the proposed pages brought up nothing. I can't believe I'm the first person > to want to do this. I should have used Google because there is a tag called > shop=lawyer on the 'Abandoned' Wiki pages.
Why google? There is a search box in the wiki that I'd use first: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=lawyer First hit is the abandoned proposal amenity=lawyer. Unfortunately, there's a lot of ODBL and licensing results, too, so maybe we could introduce a namespace for tagging so you could only search tag documentation and proposals? > The point is that scholarly research is time consuming, and most people > don't have the patience and we're possibly discouraging mappers who would > otherwise contribute. Do you have an easier solution than a search box? Integration of that search box with editors would be nice (these could then search their presets, too), but I don't think there is a more useful user interface for answering the "How do I tag y" question. By the way: We also have a German page for "natural language -> tags" in the wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Howto_Map_A) which is maintained manually. The English equivalent is rather limited, though. Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
