<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 13:23, Sergio Manzi <<a href="mailto:smz@smz.it">smz@smz.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>"<i>ad hoc</i>" (for this) signifies a solution designed for a
specific problem or task, non-generalizable, and not intended to
be able to be adapted to other purposes.</p>
<p>"<i>extempore</i>" (or more correctly "<i>ex tempore</i>", "from
the time") means something done without preparation or
forethought, as if prompted by the spirit of the moment.</p>
<p>"<i>impromptu</i>", improvisation, has more or less the same
meaning as "<i>ex tempore</i>".<br>
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<p>I don't see how how the above could be seen as substitutes for
"in use" or any other OSM tags status...</p></div></blockquote><div>Were you here when we discussed landuse=clearing that somebody found used (presumably</div><div>by a HOT mapper)? Used only a handful of times. It had not been proposed and accepted, or</div><div>proposed and rejected. It was not widely used. It was something that somebody had made up</div><div>on the spot from lack of knowledge about the correct way to deal with it. The wiki should</div><div>probably document and deprecate it, for the benefit of anyone who finds it on taginfo and</div><div>would otherwise assume it to be acceptable.</div><div><br></div><div>But there are other de novo tags which don't have existing alternatives, haven't been through a</div><div>proposal process and are not widely used. "In use" implies fairly wide usage. Otherwise</div><div>anyone can invent a tag (however silly) use it once and document it in the wiki as "in use." I</div><div>doubt that is a good way to go. Nor is leaving such things undocumented else we're likely</div><div>to end up with dozens of alternative tags for the same thing.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>