[OSM-dev] Related terms in the wiki for improved tag search

[Josh Doe]

Sounds interesting. Anyone ever thought of installing Semantic MediaWiki?
This would be a great use for it, among other things.
-Josh
On Sep 1, 2011 3:22 PM, "Stefan Keller" <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:
> We are currently experimenting with our TagFinder
> (http://152.96.56.32/poiservice/tagfinder ) and want to improve the
> search for OSM tags.
>
> One of the crucial point there is that synonyms and related terms are
> found (term being one ore more words). Example: A search for "church"
> will show "amenity=place_of_worship".
>
> In order to achieve this a controlled word list (a thesaurus) becomes
> necessary. This is a list of terms where some are OpenStreetMap
> specific. This can not be found in a general purpose thesaurus.
>
> => Because of this, I propose to capture in the OSM wiki so-called
> "related terms". They can be kept up to date by the community (while I
> would like to set a good example).
>
> Of course it would be more precise to introduce also synonyms and
> broader/narrower terms. But that seems too complicated for many users.
>
> => In order to store related terms I propose to use wiki templates.
> That would look like this on a OSM wiki page (eg.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dplace_of_worship ):
>
> {{RelatedTerm|place of worship}}
> {{RelatedTerm|church}}
> {{RelatedTerm|mosque}}
> {{RelatedTerm|synagogue}}
> {{RelatedTerm|en_GB|devotion building}}
> {{RelatedTerm|en_US|prayer house}}
>
> The related terms are parsed from the Wiki pages by Taginfo during the
> update process and stored in Taginfo database (as it's already doing
> for the "tag" template). The terms lists are then passed over to the
> Taginfo API. BTW: The "preferred term" ("Preferred tag") can be
> estimated by the tag statistics API of Taginfo.
>
> Theoretically parts of this code could be ported over to the search
> Taginfo (the Taginfo API is already used now by our TagFinder).
>
> => What do you think?
>
> Yours, Stefan
>
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