[osmosis-dev] Osmosis OSM wiki content

[Brett Henderson]

Hi Jeff,

On 22 October 2012 08:10, Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org> wrote:

> Hi - n00b here.
> There's a lot of good content on the wiki about Osmosis, but as a new guy
> (fng), it seems like it could be organized a little more cleanly. I've put
> together some suggestions at:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Osmosis#Wiki_Osmosis_organization
> The intent isn't to change things too much, and certainly not to delete
> anything, but to consolidate similar information and reduce redundancy of
> page purpose a little.
> If there's support and/or suggestions of alternate approaches, I'd be glad
> to take care of it.
> If it's a bad idea, I'll sit tight.
> Also... if this isn't the right way to propose wiki mods, please let me
> know.
>

There's no right way to propose anything, this seems like as good a way as
any :-)

Regarding the wiki structure, about the only page I really care about is
the detailed usage page because it is the one page that I try to keep 100%
accurate and up to date.  I'm very hesitant to split it up, re-arrange it,
etc.  I take your point about the name "detailed usage" reading more like a
man page than a usage page, it's just a name that seemed like a good idea
at the time.  I like the content of the page, but I don't particularly care
what it's called.

As for the rest of the pages, I haven't been a great curator of the wiki so
I won't get in the way of somebody trying to improve it.  I'm also not the
best judge of what users need to know.  There is a bunch of stuff on there,
some better organised than others.  The various examples are based on
whatever people have found useful at the time so it's grown fairly
organically.  In particular some of the older stuff like API 0.5 support,
Java 1.5 support, Notes, etc are a bit distracting and could possibly move
elsewhere.

Brett
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