On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Tobias Knerr <o...@tobias-knerr.de> wrote: >> The number of redlinks >> (undocumented tags) is also somewhat alarming > > The majority of redlinks are tags that are composed from a set of > possible keys and possible values that can be arbitrarily combined.
True, although there are plenty that ought to be documented, like values of amenity, barrier, highway, historic... > In both cases, I don't think creating a wiki page for each key-value > pair would make any sense. Keeping redirects up to date manually > wouldn't be easy, either. Maybe this could be automated, though. I think redirects make sense where we're already documenting *some* of the values. > I don't think we should care for tags which aren't documented anywhere > and /aren't really being used/ either, just because the person inventing > them had write access to a renderer style sheet. Actually, it would be > nice to have tag usage statistics from tagwatch or osmdoc in the table, > too - this would quickly tell the reader whether, for example, > "small_town" has any relevant support by mappers (hint: it hasn't). Yeah, but it's hard to tell the difference between "new tag that has been proposed and accepted but not widely used yet" and "tag that was added at the whim of a rendererer but has no support". Sort of the essence of this issue! > I notice that your Map Features parsing has split the "24/7" value for > opening_hours. I'm not sure whether similar cases occur elsewhere, too. Ah, yes. My regex is overly restrictive: [[a-zA-Z_-]]+. Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
