OpenStreetMap
The OpenStreetMap website now links to Key:* and Tag:* pages on the wiki
Posted by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason on 20 April 2010 in English.A feature I wrote (ticket, commit) to link from /browse/* pages to the wiki just got deployed (thanks Tom). Here's an example of it working in the wild.
If you add new wiki pages to describe tags they won't appear right away. We'll periodically update our index for the website.
This also works for people that don't speak English. If you're using e.g. a German locale you'll get links to natural=volcano instead of natural=volcano. Note that the volcano link stays the same, that's because there's no German page for the natural=volcano tag yet.
Discussion
Comment from JohnSmith on 20 April 2010 at 23:44
Great idea!
Although it would be best to link all keys/values to the wiki and highlight them as non-existent to encourage more people to document their usage.
Comment from Richard on 20 April 2010 at 23:45
Soooo... Potlatch links to tagstat and the data browser links to the wiki.
And the whole unholy OSM tagging mess continues on its eyeball-sandpapering course.
Comment from Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason on 20 April 2010 at 23:57
@JohnSmith: The problem with that is that it's not easy to tell what values deserve wiki pages. Does
name:en? Maybe, does2010 Fimmvörðuháls eruption? Definitely not.I guess we could combine it with something like tagstat and only link to missing key/values that are really popular. Is there a dump of it available somewhere?
@Richard: Tagging is a mess. What I was aiming for was the "what does this value mean" case, not just statistics about it. If someone makes a tool that includes both that would be awesome & we could link to that.
We could also link to both if we could do so unobtrusively.
Comment from JohnSmith on 21 April 2010 at 00:23
Is it possible to take the tag stat data and for any entries that appear X times link to a wiki page?
Comment from amm on 21 April 2010 at 00:25
The wiki template ValueDescription has a link to OsmDoc and Tagwatch. Isn't that "enough" as a "tool that includes both"?
Nice work on those links to the wiki btw. Perhaps that will help expose the tag descriptions more and encourage people to improve the description to make it less of a mess
Comment from Kevin Steinhardt on 21 April 2010 at 00:36
Ah; awesome idea. :)
Comment from Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason on 21 April 2010 at 01:55
I thought I'd add support for wikipedia=* links as well (not yet live).
@JohnSmith: Yeah Pumba :)
@amm: Yeah. It would just be neat if there was more integration between them. I've also found that Tagwatch is really slow today, the OpenStreetMap wiki is probably a better default target.
Comment from !i! on 21 April 2010 at 05:59
Thats cool but it slowly it would be nescessary to create a helppage for the blog to showing up the features.