[OSM-talk] Proposal for Tag Prefixes

[Etienne]

On 10/27/06, Tom Carden <tom at tom-carden.co.uk> wrote:
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> 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?
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> > 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?
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> 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).
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> 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.


I don't disagree - but I do think that OSM has a very powerful and active
non-developer community and the wiki has become a focal point for a lot of
their ideas and contributions.  This is, I think, an unexpected outcome but
not one that should be discouraged.

I wish that the main OSM site could do more to support the community, but I
understand the time it takes to develop good stuff.

Etienne


Tom.
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