[Tagging] "What can I ask ..." list for browsing people

[André Pirard]

Hi,

I'm always annoyed when I write to Mr X that he can request additions to
his OSM element (what some call his feature like his shop), that I feel
necessary to give him examples, repeated over and over again, and that
my list is short.
I think that I should just refer him to the OSM.org map Help page...

Shouldn't there be a wiki page to show to such people, listing the most
common tags he can ask, most most common first, with a very short
explanation and, of course, a link to the full explanation?  Is there?
Also maybe a "how to help us", like I've written here
<http://www.papou.byethost9.com/maps/OSM_user_help/> (may be outdated).
And maybe ...
Doesn't all that sound like a "how to browse and use the OSM.org map"
page that should be its help file?

Unfortunately, as I reported here, Tom Hughes refused to put
<https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/871> a
(this) Help page
<https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/871> on
OSM.org.
It amounts to saying that what I and the other contributors of that page
have written is crap.
"Full of all sorts of hacky low level details" (like the essentials to
make a link to OSM.org).
And links to other wiki pages "full of years works of ac[c]reted nonsense".
OSM.org map <http://www.openstreetmap.org> would "not be intended for
the end user" but "the target audience is mappers".
All that in a usual destructive way, not a single suggestion and not
even a reply.

Strangely enough, much later, a mapper asked me (why me?) where that
impossible to find <http://www.openstreetmap.org/help>
(damned) Browsing Help page
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Browsing> is.  Don't be surprised
then if the general public, who doesn't even know it exists, doesn't get
interested in OSM.

What can I show to Mr X?

Cheers

André.







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