[OSM-talk] Announcing name searches for OSM

[Jonas Svensson]

> On Tue, 8 May 2007, David Earl 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.
>
> 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.

There were something similar for fixing UTF8-errors but none is up to
date AFAIK. See templates used on
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Utf8_errors>

/Jonas