History of taginfo

Here are some of the more important events in the history of the taginfo project. The numerous small improvements and bugfixes can't all be listed.

October 2010

Project started

November 2010

Added localization support, first languages English, German, Italian
Add support for embedding taginfo snippets into OSM wiki
Add the first reports

March 2011

Started API documentation

April 2011

Added JSONP support
taginfo.openstreetmap.ie is the first site other than the main site to use taginfo.

June 2011

Switched from taginfo.openstreetmap.de to taginfo.openstreetmap.org

October 2011

Add French and Russian localization
Add maps for keys on ways
Add config file

January 2012

New design for web user interace

July 2012

Add support for Ruby 1.9

November 2012

Add Polish localization

December 2012

Add CORS support

January 2013

Switch to API version 4
Fully switch to Ruby 1.9, doesn't work with Ruby 1.8 any more
Switch to jQuery 1.9
Switch from Protovis to D3 for graphs and charts
Add word cloud to homepage
Add support for relation types
Add support for keyboard shortcuts
Add support for key/tag/relation type thumbnails from wiki
Start collecting some statistics in a database thats kept from day to day

February 2013

Add link to Overpass Turbo

February 2014

Main taginfo site moves to OSMF infrastructure

March 2014

Add Portuguese localization

April 2014

Added Ukrainian localization

May 2014

Add support for key/tag comparison
Add Level0 editor link
Add support for maps on popular tags
Remove support for old API versions 2 and 3
Add Hungarian, Spanish, and Vietnamese localization

September 2014

Add support for external projects

November 2014

Add Brazilian Portuguese localization

February 2015

Add 'Similarity' tab for keys
Add 'Historic development' report

March 2015

Add Japanese localization
Add 'Wiki images' report

August 2015

Add 'taglist' feature

November 2015

Database statistics creation code switches from old osmium to new libosmium

December 2015

Major refactoring of the shell scripts collecting the source data making the code cleaner and more robust

January 2016

New web site layout with more prominent menu and better mobile support

February 2016

Cleanup of database statistics creation code with some speedups

August 2016

Support for HiDPI displays in web UI
Add Taiwanese Chinese localization
Better integration of projects