[OSM-talk] Change: How mature is OpenStreetMap?

[Jo Walsh]

> I keep preaching it over and over again, but unfortunately very few 
> people are willing to invest time into the Wiki. It's just so sad when 
> you look on TagInfo and see how many tags lack a documentation.

I recently attended a weekend mapping party organised by the 57 North
Hacklab up in Aberdeen. It was meant to have more of a hackday aspect
but we just carried on mapping, and I really enjoyed the introduction to
a new city it provided me with.

It was also an interesting view of very geeky new mappers, familiar with
the underlying concepts but new to the problem space, and so we were
exploring the taginfo / wiki combination to figure out how to add things
like contact details for local businesses.bv

One thing we found was that a lot of the wiki pages had transitional
sets of tags; moving from one namespace to a more specialised one. We
weren't sure which tagset to use, and so of course one way to find out
is to look at the volume in taginfo.

In the end we looked at the centre of a comparable local city for
commonly used tagsets, and took those patterns, can't remember how it
all got tagged up in the end.