[OSM-talk] Proposed Amenity Reorganization

[Pieren]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Richard Fairhurst<richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Arguing over the presentation on the wiki isn't really the issue. What the
> tags are, and how they're documented, are two separate things. But like Ævar
> says, talk is cheap, and though many of us feel strongly that MediaWiki is a
> rubbish solution (even discounting its performance issues) none of us have
> as yet actually produced any code. Any devs out there looking for a project?
>

I'm not talking about the whole wiki, just the "Map Features" page.
This page presents all tags at same level of importance, from the
highway=residential instanciated million times to highway=bus_guideway
or railway=monorail instanciated ergh.. (don't know.. 3 times ?).
I don't understand people saying it is not possible with the search
function. How do they use wikipedia ? they have a single page listing
all articles listed in alphabetic order ?
About synonyms, you can also improve the descriptions to include these
terms or use the "REDIRECT" feature.
I also don't like the position "why bother, it's chaotic, let them
continue". I'm sure we can improve this page a bit more than "sort the
amenities".

Pieren