[OSM-talk] Proposal for Tag Prefixes

[Tom Carden]

Etienne wrote:
> Once the wiki and OSM user names have been unified this makes a lot of 
> sense.  At the moment the OSM username is not very prominent and can 
> be altered by the user at any time. 

Ah yes, that should be fixed I think... changing user names but not 
emails is a bit weird - should be the other way around!  Steve is this 
catered for in your rails port?

> The wiki Id is more persistent.  The user's home page on the wiki is 
> also the most obvious place to document tag usage guidlines.
>
> Hopefully the two will get unified sometime soon - which will be the 
> master when that happens?

I think that tying the OSM database to the wiki would be a Bad Thing, as 
the wiki might not be the focus of activity for ever.  So hopefully your 
OSM log-in will work on the wiki at some point (and not the other way 
around).

I don't really want to get drawn into another conversation about whether 
the wiki is more important than the main site (which I consider to be 
API, traces pages and of course the database).  That said, I continue to 
think of the wiki as a support function to openstreetmap.org (and hence 
I think it's a bad idea to point www at wiki).  I know you disagree, and 
I concede that far more useful stuff has sprung from, and is organised 
around, the wiki than www.

Tom.