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<p>Oct 18, 2022, 11:20 by osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org:<br></p><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><blockquote>I strongly suspect assets are tagged differently depending when they were mapped and even who mapped them.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I always took the wiki to be "the standard", at least for editing I do. Is that not the case for everyone?<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">OSM Wiki should not be treated as authoritative and ruling over OSM project.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Tagging is documented there, but it describes how tags are used rather than<br></div><div dir="auto">ruling and mandating (see <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like</a> )<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Wiki attempts to describe various common practices, used tags.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So it is worth investigating situation, maybe following linked discussions<br></div><div dir="auto">if you disagree with something recommended there. And typically description<br></div><div dir="auto">at OSM Wiki is correct.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But OSM Wiki has many mistakes, missing info, outdated pages,<br></div><div dir="auto">heavily outdated translations, completely missing translations,<br></div><div dir="auto">pages written by people who documented their preferences rather than common tagging...<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Help with improvements is highly welcome!<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">At the same time documentation gathered here is often useful overview or at least good starting point.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Again, edits making it even better are highly welcome!<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-- signed, person with significant activity at OSM Wiki<br></div><p><br></p><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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