On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/10/19 Erik Johansson <erjo...@gmail.com>:
> I'd say that 95% of the mappers are interested in what the > renderings show, and that is also in the mapfeatures-list. I agree > though that in the case you are looking for something special and not > already documented it will fail. Since I'm concentrating in the not documented tags that might explain why I dismiss it as irrelevant. But I really think it's now so big it is more of a hurdle than anything else, this is from watching newbies mapping on openstreetmap. >> Care to expand on what you mean? The wiki search sucks > > I don't agree that it sucks. My favorite feature are drinking But when you don't know the language and can't produce synonyms it certainly sucks, right? >> There is a need for personal documentation of tags, easy way to say >> what this tag means for you. IMO We are severely limited by English, >> what is easy to describe in Swedish for me, might be hard for me to do >> in German, Spanish or English. > > just go ahead. There is no limit, and everyone can document everything > on his personal wiki page (IMHO _this_ would lead to bad results, as > you get everyones own definition and are left alone for deciding, > which one you prefer, whilst today we maintain one page which displays > (at it's best) the consensous in definition. There must still be a standard, that is a consensus on a wikipage, there are several problems though: * You tag according to a standard, without understanding "You are doin it wrong" * You don't know there is a standard and tag as you want * There is no standard If you document what you think you are tagging then we have a better chance to understand what you mean by those two tiny key/val words you use to describe something. /Erik _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
