[OSM-dev] Human friendly labels for tags

[Claus Stadler]

Hi,

A while ago I asked whether there are any mappings from tags to human 
friendly labels such as [highway=traffic_signal -> Ampel] or
[tourism=chalet -> Almhütte][1].
Obviously, this information is useful for displaying entities in a human 
friendly way.

We were pointed to the translate wiki[2], and in fact, the values for 
keys starting with "geocoder.search_osm_nominatim.prefix."[3] are very 
useful for that purpose.

My questions are, whether there is also a way of contributing new 
translations, as it seems special rights are required for this.

And if so, would it be even possible to add - or at least propose - new 
tags? For instance, on translate wiki, there is an entry for 
[tourism=chalet], but there is no entry for [highway=traffic_signal] 
(which could be translated to e.g. Ampel in german)


Kind regards,
Claus

[1]http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2010-April/019207.html
[2]http://translatewiki.net
[3]http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslate&task=view&group=out-osm-site&language=de&limit=2500