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<p>Hello all,<br>
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This mail to launch some discussions on <a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:advertising">advertising</a>
tag. <page><br>
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I have personnaly been slowly working on this tag during the last
two years, with the idea that at the end, if we could have
advertising devices properly specified in OSM, and one day all
advertising devices stored in OSM, it could bring the necessary
tools and information to citizens to have some control on
advertisings in the public space...<br>
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So I spent time on discussing with and presenting to different
kinds of people, specifying, prototyping and experimenting <a
href="http://pdfext.github.io/OSM/advertising/">ways of mapping
advertising devices</a> on OSM, and then, after these design
steps, I performed during the last 6 months many little addings
and changes on advertising wiki pages. These addings were done
without discussing them with "tagging" list (except one), and I
received recently (only recently) an indignant mail from someone
exposing that all these new points should never have been commited
to OSM wiki without being discussed and approved first by OSM
community. He is right. I recognize my clumsiness, hope it is not
too late to have these discussions, not to late to find a
consensus and decide of what can be kept and what can be improved.
So I wish we can start from now on 'tagging' list several little
threads on advertising tags... Depending on results of threads
discussions, what is not commonly shared and accepted will be
removed or changed, so that the way of mapping advertising devices
is improved at the end. If this overall work can be done slowly by
surely during 2017, that could be fine.</p>
<p>So I will try to animate one first thread and see how it goes...
There are many things to discuss... <br>
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<p>This first thread can be for example related <a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:support">to the
way the advertising devices are supported</a>. <br>
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<p> I ll start this first thread next week to take into account your
potential returns on this preliminary introduction mail first, if
any.<br>
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Thank you<br>
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<p>Paul</p>
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