[OSM-talk] Individual wiki pages (was Re: weeklyOSM #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23)

[Andy Townsend]

On 29/10/2017 08:57, Dave F wrote:
> Going off topic, I know, but why is this 'Derbyshire' page even in 
> OSM's wiki? It's meant to have details about how to map not trying to 
> compete with Wikipedia.

It's not competing with wikipedia.  It's a list of links to other 
OSM-related stuff and "what people are mapping or have mapped" there.  
For example, you won't find a link to the OSM boundary relation for 
Amber Valley in wikipedia, likewise not any of the long or short 
distance trails on the sub-pages (and good luck finding much of that 
information anywhere else).

Part of the reason for having trails listed was to complement 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_long_distance_paths 
for shorter local paths.  You can't find the names of these with 
Nominatim.  You can with taginfo (e.g. 
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=pennine+bridleway#values ) - 
but even then you have to go over overpass turbo to get the data and 
it's really not straightforward.

As more tools around OSM appear the need for pages like the Derbyshire 
one reduces, but there will still be a need for community-related stuff 
such as https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup .

Best Regards,

Andy