[Osmf-talk] Tagging standards

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Oct 17, 2022, 15:40 by jwhelan0112 at gmail.com:

> even the voting system where three or four people can gather together and declare a new wonderful way of tagging doesn't always reflect what taginfo tells us is used.
>
not really

at least 8 votes are needed and people tend to vote against broken schemes anyway

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process#Approved

>  
>  HOT validators do change the tags on objects mapped by HOT mappers.  Should we permit this or should we keep the original tags?  Should they use a changeset comment and allow for discussion before making the changes?
>
There is no reason to make unique requirements for HOT validators, and HOT mapping 
often requires massive updates  

>  So we appear to have five possibly different standard tagging systems. 
>
with ongoing attempt to synchronize them.

JOSM developers has special monitoring system to notify them about
new popular tags.

For example recently I spend quite a lot
time on monitoring StreetComplete tagging, Wiki docs and iD tagging

Resulted for example in:
https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/issues/529
https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/pull/608
https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/pull/597
https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/pull/583
https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/pull/528
https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/pull/524
https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/pull/400
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/22397
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki#Missing_language_description_at_compound_pages
many edits to surface pages and discussion on tagging
many other OSM Wiki edits
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Deprecate_man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain
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