The problem about proposal pages is that they can be infinitely theoretical, non-verifiable or outright insane. So telling a mapper who is thinking about inventing a new tag to search the proposals if there is one that already covers what they want to do is not practicable. Because even if there is a proposal that deals with the same kind of situation the mapper is confronted with that does not mean the proposal contains a practicable idea of how to tag this.
The advisable approach to making tag documentation on the wiki better usable is IMO not to further blur the line between documentation of the de facto meaning of tags by humans and all the other uses of the wiki (like proposals, automatically assembled data etc.) but more strictly separating them. If you (theoretically - it would probably be a lot of work to do this practically) take all tagging documentation from the wiki no matter where it is and remove everything that is not strictly documenting the de facto meaning of tags in the OSM database the result would be a pretty compact body of documentation. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk