[OSM-talk] iD, relevant tag suggestions

[John Firebaugh]

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

> There are some minor issues with what appears as tag suggestions on
> objects. E.g. I edited a (already quite detailed) hotel and the suggested
> tags were elevation, wikipedia, note and wheelchair. I think very few
> hotels have an elevation tagged, ele is generally a complicated thing to
> tag (you have to understand the relevant reference system(s) to get it
> right, and the most interesting information in conjunction with a building
> is obtained only in combination with height) so I'd suggest to remove ele
> in this case in favor of other more useful tags (e.g.  stars
> / award:hotelstars, email, internet_access, ...).
>

iD's presets system has two levels of "suggested" tags. The more prominent
is that certain tags will, by default, provide visible input fields on
certain features, even if the feature doesn't currently have that tag. For
hotel, those tags are "operator", "building", and the various tags that
make up the address form. The less prominent level, and presumably what you
are referring to, is that iD provides a way to show any tag that is
designated as "universal", i.e. applicable to all or nearly all features.
The UI for this is a set of icons at the bottom of the fields:

https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/98601/521827/90e75992-bfd9-11e2-8d64-c45c4696d060.png

iD will hopefully eventually have a much larger set of custom fields, so at
some point it will probably need to switch from this icon based UI to one
based on search:

https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/1070

Your points about the most relevant tags for hotels are good ones. iD's
preset system is designed to be highly customizable, and we encourage
people to help build out the presets. You don't have to have a programming
background to do so.

https://github.com/systemed/iD/blob/master/data/presets/README.md

cheers,
John
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