On 29/10/2017 08:57, Dave F wrote:
Going off topic, I know, but why is this 'Derbyshire' page even in OSM's wiki? It's meant to have details about how to map not trying to compete with Wikipedia.
It's not competing with wikipedia. It's a list of links to other OSM-related stuff and "what people are mapping or have mapped" there. For example, you won't find a link to the OSM boundary relation for Amber Valley in wikipedia, likewise not any of the long or short distance trails on the sub-pages (and good luck finding much of that information anywhere else).
Part of the reason for having trails listed was to complement https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_long_distance_paths for shorter local paths. You can't find the names of these with Nominatim. You can with taginfo (e.g. https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=pennine+bridleway#values ) - but even then you have to go over overpass turbo to get the data and it's really not straightforward.
As more tools around OSM appear the need for pages like the Derbyshire one reduces, but there will still be a need for community-related stuff such as https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup .
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