[OSM-talk] Map features page on wiki

François Lacombe fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 05:25:07 UTC 2016


Hi Matthijs,

+1 to keep Map Feature pages up to date.

It would be great to sync definitions with info boxes (with some template
tricks but it more looks like wiki-data than simple wikimedia templates)
TagInfo already got it from wiki

All the best
Francois
Le 1 sept. 2016 12:45 AM, "Matthijs Melissen" <info at matthijsmelissen.nl> a
écrit :

> Hi,
>
> We have currently a Map Features page on the wiki:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features
>
> The page also contains definitions for all features. We therefore
> store the definitions now in two places: in the map features tables
> and in the infoboxes on the pages themselves.
>
> Duplication of definitions seems not ideal to me. Even though a lot of
> people try to update this, there are still quite a lot differences
> between the definitions on the map feature pages and the definitions
> in the infoboxes.
>
> Do we want to keep the Map Features page? If yes, do we have technical
> means to keep the definitions synchronised? Could we perhaps generate
> it from Taginfo, or somehow include the definition from the Infobox on
> the Map Features page?
>
> -- Matthijs
>
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