[OSM-talk] Map Features key:value system stored in a DB?

[Rich]

== Alternate system ==

Hello,
I'm possibly over-keen for some programming to do, but for the page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Map_Features would it be useful
to have the key,possible values,comments stored in a database and then shown
on the page? Dunno if it would be useful?
The key's own page (ie [[Key:highway]] could be automatically generated from
the same data, meaning their would be less copy pasting of data, and less
chance of errors?

To (for example) add a new key, you'd see a form requesting the key name and
its possible values and comments etc.

If your interested, to see an example of data being shown in a wiki page but
pulled from a database, there is a event manager example
<a href="
http://www.umsu.manchester.ac.uk/wikispectus/index.php/Special:EditEvents/date%3D20051003%26view%3Dweek%26type%3Dall">
here</a>. (log in with username test, password test). Click on the 'e' by
any event and you can see how it can be edited. (Please don't click x or d).
This code has a history of all changes, and changes are revertable just like
in the wiki system.

Oh, the other reason I thought of it was that it would mean showing
different languages & translating them might be easier.
Also posted it on
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Map_Features#Alternate_system
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