[Tagging] Tag definitions in the OSM wiki and Wikipedia references

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2012/6/8 Martin Vonwald <imagic.osm at gmail.com>:
> 2012/6/8 Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com>:
>> 2012/6/7 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
>>> My plea is to avoid these links to external ressources and to define
>>> all necessary settings in our own wiki.
>> I think that a deeper integration with wikipedia could be a very interesting
>> thing.  Maybe some links on our wiki aren't correct, but the possibility to
>> go to a wikipedia article about charging stations, and than clicking "see
>> them in opentreetmap" which highlights them on our map is my idea of a
>> perfectly linked information.
>
> I think Martin Koppenhoefer was mostly referring to tag definitions
> that consist solely of a link to wikipedia. This of course doesn't
> make much sense as no-one should be forced to read wikipedia simply to
> tag some feature.


Yes, I also believe neat integration of OSM into Wikipedia is great.
Recently you can click (at least in the German WP for now, not sure if
this feature is deployed in other languages as well), for many
features on the map link and instead of getting only a point
coordinate you will also get area or way overlays, highlighting the
feature in the browser (think e.g. of a river or an administrative
entity).

What I was writing about is the _tag definitions_ in the OSM wiki, not
wikipedia integration in general. These should (IMHO) not contain
links to external sources in the definition/description section (the
part that describes for what the tag is used). It is not about "only"
or mixed in the text, but in general. Copy the relevant parts into the
OSM wiki (and add wikipedia as the source).

cheers,
Martin