[OSM-talk] A wiki template for the page "Map features" ?

[Pieren Pieren]

Dear all,

I'm currently maintaining the french version of the wiki page "Map
Features". This page is really THE reference for all OSM mappers.

Tagging can be country specific and I see that some countries use the
english page as a reference and just add some local tags if necessary.
Some countries already translated the whole page and try to maintain it with
the continuous minor changes (e.g. Fr:Map_Features, De:Map_Features,
Cz:Map_Features, etc...)
I think it would be really helpful for all translators if we could use a
template, sharing the same list of approved tags.

I just wrote a small prototype here :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Template:Map_Features:highway
Also a page testing the template here :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:Pieren/sandbox

The template provides the list of approved keys/values and a default
description (in english), rendered image(s) and photo(s).
To keep the size of the template reasonable, I would create a template per
theme (one for highway, one for cycleway, etc...)

Please tell me what do you think about this idea.

regards
Pieren
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