Am 27. April 2012 11:01 schrieb Douglas Musaazi <[email protected]>: > Just wondering could some one share all categories of information that can > be mapped to osm?
basically there are no limits, you can map all categories of information, as long as the features: - are more or less permanent - are suitable to be represented with vectors - do relate to some geographical property or object with geographical qualities more information can be found here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like There is a list of the "main" features here in the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features (I guess you know this page?) and by searching the wiki for terms you will find other tags as well, either as feature definitions, or as proposals. To get an idea how established they are, you can have a look at taginfo to see the actual use: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/ (this is also an interesting to find tags that aren't yet documented). If you have something to map and you can't find a suitable tag the best thing IMHO is to ask on the mailing list (tagging) [1] if there is already a mapping schema for it, or to discuss with other mappers what would be the best new tagging schema for this feature. Please note that not all information present in the database will also find its way on every map rendering created from that data. Some information will be more relevant for routers then for renderings (e.g. maxspeed, surface, access-restrictions), or might be relevant for geocoding (addresses). Keep in mind that what you see on the mapnik rendering on our website is not the only representation of the data (see also http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer ) cheers, Martin [1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
