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<div>on topic of landuse=reservoir vs water=reservoir<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have strong preference toward version with natural=water,<br></div><div>but landuse=reservoir is clearly still in significant use<br></div><div><br></div><div>on topic of what is deciding for tag popularity<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dec 13, 2020, 15:31 by pla16021@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 14:13, Brian M. Sperlongano <<a href="mailto:zelonewolf@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">zelonewolf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class=""><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div>Is it time to more directly recommend that mappers favor natural=water + water=reservoir *instead of* rather than *in addition to* landuse=reservoir?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>The reality is that no matter what it says in the wiki and no matter what<br></div><div>conclusions we reach on this list, tagging practise is largely determined<br></div><div>by editor presets.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>This statement ignores that editor presets are strongly influenced by this<br></div><div>things.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Yes, there were some cases where iD developers<br></div><div>completely or mostly ignored existing documentation <br></div><div>(at least one ongoing), but this cases were rare and explosive.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div class=""><div>(a very small fraction of users tag<br></div><div>manually, but most do not).<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>This "very small fraction" is much more active than other<br></div><div>mappers and they have very significant influence on tagging.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Tagging discussions (here and elsewhere), wiki docs,<br></div><div>mappers tagging tags directly have a very big influence<br></div><div>especially for establishing new tags.<br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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