[OSM-talk] Tag proposal/approval system is too heavyweight

[Chris Hill]

I have been doing some analysis of tags from OSMXapi using a little prog Tagalyze.   (more info if people are interested) ... 

Take place_of_worship:
In the file I downloaded a couple of days ago there are 11399 amenity=place_of_worship.  There are 126 other key values for tags, with many of them only occurring once.  There are are 8869 nodes that have religion=*, which have 98 different values, again many of these are only a single value, but many are what are defined as denominations in the wiki.  There are seven different spellings of denomination.  with over 200 different values..

My point is that an automated process to produce a suggested list will need some help.

Lets improve the process to produce a suggested or render-supported list, but maintain a managed list not some automated behemoth.
 
cheers, Chris

----- Original Message ----
From: Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
To: Robert (Jamie) Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net>
Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org; Gervase Markham <gerv-gmane at gerv.net>
Sent: Wednesday, 19 March, 2008 1:30:53 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Tag proposal/approval system is too heavyweight

Hi,

> If we are thinking of revamping this, can I make a request for better
> integration with Tagwatch?
> http://etricceline.de/osm/united-kingdom/index_en.htm

Why not ditch the whole notion of "approved" features altogether. It  
doesn't cut any meat in our community anyway. What does "approved"  
mean, and who has the right to "approve" something?

> So tags would have their own pages, keys would have their own  
> pages, and
> the human and machine readable list of all approved tags (i.e. Map
> Features) would be generated periodically by tagwatch (or some clever
> mediawiki feature).

Right, generate it from the planet file and that's that. Maybe have a  
wiki page that documents what the renderers do and at what zoom level  
(ideally auto-generated as well).

Bye
Frederik

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