[OSM-talk] Wikipedia definition in tag page template

[Tobias Knerr]

Sam Vekemans schrieb:
> Why is it that all of the templates for the detail box on the right
> have "Google definition" and a link to a search for that tag on google
> search?

I'd even ask: Why do we have such a link at all? What matters is how a
term is defined in OSM context, not how it is defined by Google,
Wiktionary or whoever. If "highway" in OSM is a collective key for
everything from footway to motorway, *that's* the relevant information,
not the "A highway is a main road intended for travel by the public
between important destinations, such as cities and towns" that you get
from Google.

Therefore instead of cluttering the box with even more links (that are
placed excessively prominently above far more interesting information)
to probably contradicting definitions, we should simply eliminate the
definition links from these boxes. If the OSM meaning is indeed based on
some external definition of the term, then exactly that definition
should be linked in the descriptive text.

Tobias Knerr