[Osmf-talk] Tagging standards

Chris Andrew cjhandrew at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 16:33:02 UTC 2022


'Tier 1' tags, ie, broadly accepted?

On Mon, 17 Oct 2022, 16:00 john whelan, <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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