Taginfo has the "mission" of aggregating all information about OSM tag usage and present it to the users. As a part of this, taginfo has parsed the JOSM style config files for a long time to present infos like this: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/highway#josm .
I always wanted to extend this to other editors and other uses of OSM tags, in maps, routers, etc. But I have realized over time that that approach doesn't scale. I can't parse everybodies config file (or look at the source code of all these projects) to see which tags are used how. And I can't keep up with the changes. So I changed the approach: Instead of taginfo having to understand all the different formats, I created one simple format in which all projects can report to taginfo which tags they are using. The projects generate either automatically or manually (or both) a .json file that taginfo pulls in daily and integrates into its database. I have more or less finished this feature now. You can try it out at our beta test site: http://mercator.openstreetmap.de/projects http://mercator.openstreetmap.de/taginfo/projects Or look at any key, tag, or relation page and click on the "Projects" tab. Docs for the file format are at http://wiki.osm.org/Taginfo/Projects . Some early adopters whom I talked to have already provided project files. If there aren't any problems, I'll probably launch this on the main site in the next days. DO NOT install the new taginfo software on your servers yet, it will break, because the main server doesn't have the taginfo-projects.db file yet, so your server can't download it. If you want to play with the software, you have to create the db yourself. As always: Feedback welcome. Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.jochentopf.com/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ Taginfo-dev mailing list Taginfo-dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/taginfo-dev
