[Taginfo-dev] Finding Tags (and achieving a word translation list) - How?

[Jochen Topf]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:19:59PM +0200, Stefan Keller wrote:
> On 2011/6/23 you wrote:
> > ...
> > There is no need for a manually maintained list especially for Taginfo. There
> > are many lists out there already maintained by people who have an interest in
> > maintaining them. (...)
> > ...
> > If you think this is not enough you could add some kind of "Keyword" macro to
> > the wiki. People can add that to pages about keys and tags to specifically mark
> > certain words as "belonging to the concept of the given key/tag". Then add this
> > as one input to the algorithm. Again, this will probably not be maintained
> > properly, but at least it gives people an easy option of adding information
> > to the system if they want to.
> 
> I don't have an overview about the many lists you mention (except the
> Nominatim page I mentioned; then there is the very complicated
> TranslateWiki).
> => Can you enumerate some more?

I don't have an overview either. Just look around in the Wiki. Look at what
Taginfo is already using. I am not going to do all the work for you. :-)

> I like the Wiki keyword approach and already thought of some tagging there too.
> 
> I know Wiki macros (like {{ ... }} ) but I did not find any mechanism
> on using this for translation.
> => What do you mean by <<add some kind of "Keyword" macro to the wiki>>?

If you have say a macro {{Keyword|Bundesstraße}} on the Tag:highway=primary wiki
page, that could mean that the tag highway=primary should be found if somebody
searches for "Bundesstraße".

And you know that DE:Key=amenity page is a (very rough) translation of
Key=amenity page.

> That's what's already there: Given there exists a translated page of a
> concept (like "amenity=place of worship"), create page (like "Kirche")
> and insert there a redirect (#REDIRECT [[DE:Tag:amenity=place of
> worship]]).

Please don't. You'd just generate huge amounts of wiki pages and create a big
mess.

Jochen
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