[OSM-talk] Template:<Key> and Template:<Tag> pages in OSM-Wiki

[Robin Paulson]

On 04/02/2008, Hakan Tandogan <hakan at gurkensalat.com> wrote:
> My problem is that the template only shows "official" values for the
> shop key, but there might be more tags that are used only locally. Could
> the template render those additional tags after the "official" list,
> perhaps with a divider row between the official and unofficial /
> deprecated ones? That way, the <Language>:Map_Features pages could
> really turn into a list of template references.

i presume you're talking about doing some analysis of planet.osm and
producing a list of all tags that are used but don't occur in the map
features page. i think this has been talked about before, and it's a
good idea, once you get past the noise form spelling mistakes, foreign
words, gibberish, etc.

tagwatch might be a good place to start with this

> The other thing I don't really understand are the pages for
> Tag:<key>=<value>. Do I assume correctly that those pages are only
> necessary if a certain value is complicated enough that it deserves its
> own explication?

no, i think it's a matter of time. every tag needs text explaining
it's use, even if it's only to refer to a generic page which covers 20
similar tags (say for 'shop').