[Osmf-talk] Tagging standards

john whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 16:43:04 UTC 2022


Sounds perfect to me.

Cheerio John

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 12:33 Chris Andrew <cjhandrew at gmail.com> wrote:

> '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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