[OSM-talk] Own wikipage for every single speed limit??

[Richard Z.]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 01:37:33PM +0200, Jochen Topf wrote:

> Redirect pages can have a bad effect, though. Taginfo will show if a wiki page
> exists for a key or tag. Taginfo can't know why there is a redirect. Is this a
> case where the redirect directs from a "typo page" to the "real page" or is
> this a case where, like in the maxspeed case, several pages for totally
> good tags have been rolled into one. So taginfo shows them all the same and
> might lead people into thinking the "typo key" is the real one, if they don't
> click through to the page.
> 
> The problem behind this is that there is no way to mark the reason why there is
> a redirect. It could be "old now discontinued name", or "common misspelling",
> or "this page would be basically a copy of this other one, so look there", or
> probably some other reasons. Redirects hide this information, that could be
> written down on the page instead. So I think redirects should be avoided. In
> particular, misspellings would be better handled by having a slightly fuzzy
> search (not sure how good MediaWiki is for that).

in the case of obsolete pages I found a way to workaround the problem, place
an "obsolete, use XXX instead" into the tag description - which is then nicely
displayed by taginfo in the listing of values. 
However that only works for tag descriptions that were valid at some point in 
time and can't be used for typo or other kinds of redirects.


Richard