[Osmf-talk] Tagging standards

[john whelan]

Thank you for a informative post.

So somewhere there exists shall we call it a list of mainstream tags?

Could this be published somewhere to help rendering systems to know what to
expect as main stream?

Many thanks

Cheerio John

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 10:00 Mateusz Konieczny via osmf-talk <
osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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