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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Mar 25, 2019, 4:30 PM by marc.gemis@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">I wonder whether you will ever get the right answers to this type of<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">questions on this mailing list.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Only if people on this list have used those tags themselves or<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">interacted with people using the "wrong" tags you might get an idea of<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">what is going on.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Otherwise, it seems to me that we just might guess the correct answer.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">The only people that know what they meant with a certain tag (that is<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">not documented) are those that used it. But finding the people that<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">used to tag and contact them is a daunting task.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">And they may not wish to be contacted. I treat mailing list as self delected<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">group of mappers that is OK with answering questions asked by<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">strangers.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Also, note that if use of tag is interpreted in a common way by OSM community<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">then it does not really matter what was intended.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">In addition nearly always when I ask "what is the meaning of XYZ" I <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">have some guess/expectation what is the meaning of it (usually I<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">mention it) so if there is no response that I am wrong or mistaken<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I assume that I was right - in such cases question is basically<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">a sanity check.<br></div> </body>
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