I've been having a bit of a tinker with the changeset browser pages (e.g.) this evening, trying to improve them a little. It's great to have the browser as a reference, but it's not always easy to pick out objects that have tags on them unless they have a name tag, which would highlight them. For example, picking out nodes in a highway way that have traffic lights on them.

By getting rails to add some CSS classes, generated based on a subset of popular tag keys - such as amenity, shop, railway, highway, etc. - and their values to the links, a stylesheet could insert icons either as a generic icon for that tag key, or a more specific one for a particular key=value pair where available. The icons could be the same as the ones used in Mapnik for a bit of consistency, and would also allow for this same behaviour to be exposed in the data browser pane on the map.

The links would look something like:
<a href="/browse/node/296615763" class="node amenity restaurant">Gaucho Grill (296615763, v2)</a>

.. and the CSS something like:

a.node { padding-left: 20px; }
a.node.shop { background: transparent url(shop.png) no-repeat center left; }
a.node.amenity.restaurant { background: transparent url(restaurant.png) no-repeat center left; }


Is this something that people may be interested in seeing?