[OSM-talk] Announcing name searches for OSM

[Dan Karran]

On 5/8/07, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the suggestions, sent both on the list and privately.
>
> One thing I have felt the need of while doing this is a 'tag editor'. e.g. having looked up München and noticing it doesn't have the English equivalent tag name:en=Munich, it would be nice to just add it. At the moment that means locating it in Potlach or JOSM. Similarly I noticed loads of places which only have place_name not name, so don't show up on the maps - since the search index does find places under place_name it would be nice to jump to the node to edit it.

This'd be a great thing to have. It effectively would lower the
barrier to entry for all web users to make little tweaks.

> What I was thinking was that I could put a link on the search result which takes you to a simple non-geographic tag editor - just a form listing the tags for that item, and it let's you add tags or edit the content (obviously needs a login too). This seems like quite a simple thing to do.
>
> Just thought I'd mention it in case such a thing exists or anyone else is working on it. Otherwise I'll get going on this.

I think Chris Schmidt was working on something similar last year...
not sure where it went as I think there were issues with which user to
save the updates as, etc.


Cheers,
Dan

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