Help.openstreetmap.org/tags

Context

While ramping up the new OSM Community with a dedicated category Help and support the question was brought up how to deal with tags in this category. TomH provided an extract from OSM Help with all tags having 10 or more uses. This is my (TZorn's) attempt to filter out a list of tags that should be imported into the new Community site for tagging of support questions there.

Tag List

The original list from Help OSM included 749 tags. I consolidated obvious redundancies (e.g. aerial and aerial_imagery) or similarities (e.g. bike and cycling). Tags for languages or actual places (countries, cities) were left out. I eliminated tags that came from writing sentences (e.g. and or blue), likewise obvious tags (e.g. question or OSMI). I then eliminated lesser used tags by my own judgement.

I tried to put all proposed tags in the singular form.

The figures in the mentions columns below are taken from Tom's list. They are consolidated figures including mentions of redundant tags.

Most Significant Tags

I found 133 tags to be significant based on content and/or number of mentions

proposed tag	mentions
3d	36
access	87
accessibility	11
account	37
accuracy	25
address	239
admin_level	23
aerial_imagery	133
amenity	91
android	174
api	281
app	69
area	224
attribution	31
background	52
barrier	53
bing	80
border	70
boundary	303
bounding_box	47
browser	23
building	359
bus	139
changeset	142
coastline	65
conditional	15
construction	30
coordinates	239
copyright	109
country	57
cycling	145
data	217
database	113
development	111
direction	57
distance	61
download	263
editing	459
editor	45
elevation	30
export	412
facebook	31
filter	78
geocoding	183
geojson	28
gis	37
gps	229
gpx	246
highway	170
hiking	39
history	85
id_editor	349
image	183
import	192
indoor	39
ios	78
java	69
javascript	56
josm	604
kml	48
label	76
landuse	100
lane	59
layer	148
legal	64
level	37
license	185
lifecycle	20
location	86
login	48
map	611
mapping	182
marker	128
multipolygon	236
name	402
navigation	47
node	282
note	41
offline	103
oneway	49
opening_hours	26
openstreetmap-carto	44
overlay	41
parking	69
pedestrian	54
planet	92
poi	224
postcode	114
potlatch2	209
public_transport	72
python	73
query	141
railway	78
relation	349
rendering	474
reversegeocoding	115
revert	81
route	208
routing	286
search	185
server	117
shapefile	93
shop	67
source	29
speedlimit	69
style	86
surface	26
switch2osm	35
tagging	1178
taginfo	12
tiger	30
tile	328
tileserver	204
trace	106
traffic_signal	21
translation	28
turn_restriction	43
ubuntu	44
umap	276
update	225
upload	116
username	20
vectortile	44
waterway	50
way	247
website	107
wiki	69
wikidata	16
wikipedia	17
windows	48
wms	33
xml	82
zoom	100

Specific But Often Used Tags

There are some tags that have had high usage but are often key values or subsets of above tags. Since they have been used so often before it is likely they will be re-created if we allow new tags to be created.

tag	covered by	mentions
city	location	117
crossing	highway	41
cycleway	highway	40
destination	highway	18
footway	highway	94
forest	landuse	42
housenumber	address	61
intersection	highway	88
island	location	48
lake		55
motorway	highway	23
park	landuse	56
path	highway	93
place	location	54
point	node	84
residential	landuse	40
river	waterway	128
road, street	highway	462
track	highway	168
trail	highway	59

Tags Related to Tools/Apps in the OSM Universe

There are 32 tags related to different types of tools. I'm unsure if to include all or just the most often used ones (e.g. all above 50 mentions).

proposed tag	mentions
arcgis	34
basecamp	33
garmin	337
google	75
graphhopper	20
keepright	14
leaflet	68
maperitive	47
mapfactor	14
mapillary	12
mapnik	337
mapsforge	11
mkgmap	30
mod_tile	77
nominatim	663
openlayers	122
organicmaps
osm2pgsql	250
osmand	91
osmarender	14
osmconvert	47
osmdroid	46
osmfilter	58
osmium	26
osmose	14
osmosis	244
osrm	80
overpass	856
postgis	133
postgresql	194
qgis	67
renderd	100