<div dir="ltr"><div>Well, I'll be damned. These hikers, or "hillbaggers", are using these tags for their own purposes. Many of them could easily be derived from the ele tag. I have no stake in whether they do that or not except to say that it encourages others to make up tags for their own regional uses. In New York State there is a list of 46 peaks that top 4,000 feet and anyone who summits them joins the group called "The 46ers." But nobody maps them with 46er=yes/no because this information is immediately obvious from the ele tag. <br></div><div><br></div><div>In Thailand, there are local expat mappers who "name" a track or path in rural regions "Single-track" or "Double track" thus indicating in their own way whether it's suitable for motorcycle use. I try to discourage such mapping, preferring to address it some other more uniform and acceptable manner. This usage amounts to the same thing in IMO. I mean, the list in the Wikipedia article is a long one. Do we really want all this extra, what I would term, clutter? I'm not suggesting removing those tags but was just curious about them.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 2:39 AM Valor Naram <<a href="mailto:valinora@gmx.net">valinora@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">But as datauser I won't use that data. We need to find a way to make the tags more useful in global scope. That can be done by translating to widely supported tags etc.<br><br>~ Sören Reinecke alias Valor Naram<div style="line-height:1.5"><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Re: [Tagging] Strange tags<br>From: ael <u></u><br>To: <a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br>CC: <br><br><br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 07:24:16PM +0200, Jan Michel wrote:<br>> On 29.09.19 17:07, Paul Allen wrote:<br>> > <br>> > Really?????<br>> > <br>> > There are people who are VERY interested in these things. People who<br>> > want to know where<br>> > Munros, Donalds, Grahams, Marilyns, TuMPs, etc. are.<br>> <br>> Well... There is no documentation of these tags in the OSM wiki.<br><br>While that is certainly desirable, it is not necessary, especially where<br>the terms are well known - at least in the relevant region.<br><br>> <br>> These seem to be very local terms that are not used outside of Scotland<br>> (British Isles?). In general we oppose such local terms as keys because they<br>> won't be of any use outside a small area.<br><br>Who are "we" who oppose such terms? <br><br>OSM is trying to be the best map possible, and the map should be useful<br>in small areas (like the UK) as well as more globally.<br><br>Even if one local mapper with special local knowledge tags something<br>only understood in a very small area, it is still improving the map.<br><br>ael<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Tagging mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a><br></blockquote></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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