[OSM-dev] OSM API Improvements work

[Jochen Topf]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 08:12:54PM -0400, Richard Weait wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 03:39:52PM -0400, Tom MacWright wrote:
> >> TagInfo's API is certainly pretty good, and it might be good enough.
> 
> > I encourage you to look at what the taginfo API has to offer.
> 
> I'd love to have sensible tags suggested for me.  If I add name =
> Walmart, an editor that suggested the most-popular value for shop=*
> would be really useful.

Thats rather difficult and possibly dangerous. Chances are every time you'll
add a "highway" the system will suggest you add a "tiger:tlid" tag or something
like that. How often a tag or tag combination appears often has't much to do
with how important that tag (combination) actually is.

Jochen
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