[OSM-talk] Introducing Taginfo

Jochen Topf jochen at remote.org
Fri Oct 8 17:11:27 BST 2010


On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:05:10AM +0200, Matt Williams wrote:
> On 5 October 2010 15:37, Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> wrote:
> > For the last months I have been working on a software called Taginfo that
> > brings together information about OSM tags from the OSM database, the wiki
> > and other places. Somewhat like Tagwatch, Tagstat, and OSMdoc, but more
> > ambitious. :-)
> >
> > I am happy to announce that the beast is now available at
> >
> >    http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de
> >
> > There are still some bugs and lots of missing features, but its already
> > usable. Updates are currently done manually, but I will do automatic daily
> > updates soon.
> >
> > All the software to run this is Open Source so please go ahead, run your
> > own versions and send me patches.
> >
> > More details and background in my blog entry at:
> >
> >    http://blog.jochentopf.com/2010-10-05-introducing-taginfo.html
> >
> > Bug reports and feature ideas welcome.
> 
> It seems to be a great tool but the ability to search within tag
> values would be nice. For example I wanted to find how I should tag a
> supermarket so I type 'supermarket' into the search box. As you can
> see [1] the only match it finds is for the _key_ 'supermarket' which
> is an extremely uncommon tag with only three uses [2]. Now, since I
> know that really the tag to use is shop=supermarket I searched for
> shop [3] and as it turns out, supermarket is the most common value for
> the shop tag [4].

Search in values will definitely come at some point, its very much at the
top of my ToDo list.

Jochen
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