Sounds interesting. Anyone ever thought of installing Semantic MediaWiki? This would be a great use for it, among other things. -Josh On Sep 1, 2011 3:22 PM, "Stefan Keller" <[email protected]> wrote: > We are currently experimenting with our TagFinder > (http://152.96.56.32/poiservice/tagfinder ) and want to improve the > search for OSM tags. > > One of the crucial point there is that synonyms and related terms are > found (term being one ore more words). Example: A search for "church" > will show "amenity=place_of_worship". > > In order to achieve this a controlled word list (a thesaurus) becomes > necessary. This is a list of terms where some are OpenStreetMap > specific. This can not be found in a general purpose thesaurus. > > => Because of this, I propose to capture in the OSM wiki so-called > "related terms". They can be kept up to date by the community (while I > would like to set a good example). > > Of course it would be more precise to introduce also synonyms and > broader/narrower terms. But that seems too complicated for many users. > > => In order to store related terms I propose to use wiki templates. > That would look like this on a OSM wiki page (eg. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dplace_of_worship ): > > {{RelatedTerm|place of worship}} > {{RelatedTerm|church}} > {{RelatedTerm|mosque}} > {{RelatedTerm|synagogue}} > {{RelatedTerm|en_GB|devotion building}} > {{RelatedTerm|en_US|prayer house}} > > The related terms are parsed from the Wiki pages by Taginfo during the > update process and stored in Taginfo database (as it's already doing > for the "tag" template). The terms lists are then passed over to the > Taginfo API. BTW: The "preferred term" ("Preferred tag") can be > estimated by the tag statistics API of Taginfo. > > Theoretically parts of this code could be ported over to the search > Taginfo (the Taginfo API is already used now by our TagFinder). > > => What do you think? > > Yours, Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
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