Awesome... I guess im a sucker for the manual work :) Anyway, that answers it. So my focus is on helping the wiki editors with making the documentation awesome. I'll be able to run through the map features page and copy the latest .... in a on-way direction so to make sure the wiki is the most current source. I'll just add a column for editor notes, to flag those tags that need some attetion.
Overtime, the results of the popularity contest will level off, as more users begin to use the same tags :) cheers, sam On 10/5/10, Jochen Topf <joc...@remote.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:53:30AM -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: >> Are you getting a live feed from the wiki (for the tag descriptions)? >> or do you manually copy it in to your database? > > No manual work involved. That would be way too much work. I wrote a program > that finds and parses all relevant wiki pages and extracts the information > from them. Its not a live feed, but it can be run, for instance, each night. > >> my spreadsheet has fields for links to sample pictures and sample >> renderings which could be possable to run a macro to get the latest >> update from it? > > You could use the Taginfo downloads or the API to access the information > that I > have gathered and put it into your spreadsheet. I haven't documented the API > or > database format yet, but once thats done, it should be easy to access the > data > I have and do something with it. > > Jochen > -- > Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ > +49-721-388298 > > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-ca Canadian OSM channel (an open chat room) @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
