[OSM-talk] Map tag in Wikipedia

[Tom Carden]

2009/3/4 Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>:
>
> The OSM wiki has a <map> tag that looks like this:
> <map lat=63 lon=16.5 z=5 w=360 h=720 />
>

I think this (and the slippymap tag) are great, but I wonder if using
"map" as a tag name is a good idea. HTML already has a map tag that
means something else.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#h-13.6.1

... obviously this is just a wiki extension and people can call it
what they like, but it seems like a fantastic prototype for an html
element that could be introduced the same way the <audio> and <video>
tags are in the proposed html 5 standard. Using a name that wouldn't
clash with html 4 would help there.

Just thinking outloud,

Tom.