[OSM-talk] Category:TagsSupportedBy

Tobias Knerr osm at tobias-knerr.de
Mon Mar 30 11:03:14 BST 2009


marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com wrote:
> I added a category Category:TagsSupportedBy and tagged some pages with it
> as a test.

I'm not sure why you called the category "TagsSupportedBy" when you want
to apply it to keys and especially relations, too. Wouldn't a simple
"Supported by" or "Features supported by" or something like that fit
better? Also, I don't know why you left out spaces. CamelCase is, imo,
less human-friendly.

Except that I generally like the idea. I wonder, however, how we should
handle "partial" support. Especially with more complicated stuff like
restriction or multipolygon relations, many applications support only a
subset of the possibilities.

The only fundamental problem I see in the long term is the amount of
applications that will be added to each and every page. This will
potentially make categories unusable. Maybe it would be better to create
templates to be used at the bottom of each page? You could get the list
of supported features by checking template inclusions, and it would
allow you to choose an appropriate style, maybe expand/collapse the box
to save screen space and so on.

Tobias Knerr




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