On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 05:44:52PM -0800, Jeff Meyer wrote:
What's the role of the wiki as a source of information in the OSM community?
As for every source of information you have to evaluate how good that source
ist, how current, how accurate. You have to see how the source got that
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 08:37:50AM +0100, bruno wrote:
On mer, 2012-12-05 at 05:49 +0100, Roland Olbricht wrote:
- use tags or tag keys that have been used quite often
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/
What if a new way of tagging something gets approved? The moment it
becomes approved
2012/12/5 Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com:
Roland Olbricht writes:
In general: the wiki is only descriptive, but often it sounds normative.
It is a good idea to
- use tags or tag keys that have been used quite often
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/
+1, but only for what they are
2012/12/5 Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com:
Roland Olbricht writes:
In general: the wiki is only descriptive, but often it sounds normative.
It is a good idea to
- use tags or tag keys that have been used quite often
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/
+1, but only for what they are
Hi,
what if I tag it wrong?
There is no right or wrong tagging. When you tag, you tell all data users a
message. And either they understand you or they don't. There are things that
are easy to tell like street names, because this is completely formal. There
are things that are not formal at
From: bruno [mailto:br...@anche.no]
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Role of the Wiki
On mer, 2012-12-05 at 05:49 +0100, Roland Olbricht wrote:
- use tags or tag keys that have been used quite often
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/
What if a new way of tagging something gets approved
Hi - N00b question here:
What's the role of the wiki as a source of information in the OSM community?
In my brief period here, I've been told things like this:
- For tags: RTFW
- For relations: do NOT read the wiki HELL YES read the wiki
- Imports: the wiki's out of date
(Also - I've received
Hi,
In general, is there a method to when the wiki is or is not relevant?
Yes, please have a look at
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/
If a tag appears there in quite large numbers, it is relevant. Otherwise it is
not relevant. Whatever the wiki tells you is rather irrelevant.
What's the
Roland Olbricht writes:
In general: the wiki is only descriptive, but often it sounds normative.
It is a good idea to
- use tags or tag keys that have been used quite often
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/
- search the wiki for keywords of the thing to tag
- read the relevant pages
The info about tagging is helpful, but I'm also curious about the role of
other parts of the wiki, too. The sounding normative vs. being normative
distinctions is... subtle? to the under-initiated.
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote:
Roland Olbricht writes:
On mer, 2012-12-05 at 05:49 +0100, Roland Olbricht wrote:
- use tags or tag keys that have been used quite often
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/
What if a new way of tagging something gets approved? The moment it
becomes approved there will be probably 0 objects with the new tags,
and if
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