[Potlatch-dev] feature categories, features and tags currently used in OSM Potlatch2 deploy

[Steve Bennett]

> I'd like to know:
>  - what made you choose this set of categories/features/tags? e.g. did
> you base your choice on taginfo [2] or some other statistics?
>  - is this set of categories/features/tags somehow evolving over time?
> is this set "biased" to a specific culture? (e.g. I found it curious
> that "landuse" category has only "cemetery" and "graveyard" features,
> even because I'm not sure about the difference between the two...)

These are excellent questions and ones I'd like to discuss. I had
previously thought that this was a community process of decision
making, but recent statements from Richard Fairhurst (lead maintainer
of Potlatch2) indicate otherwise. I would very much like to hear
Richard's view. I'm quite interested in helping shape the process by
which features are included or not included, but not if it's "subject
to veto".

>  - is the complete list of categories/features/tags available
> somewhere? I browsed the code at [3] under resources, but it seems
> that data in map_features.xml and in other xml files under the
> map_features folder do not exactly correspond to those used in the
> online version of Potlatch2

What differences are you seeing? Is it just that the source code is
older than what's deployed on openstreetmap.org? And do you know how
the type restrictions work (eg, a "node" type of thing wouldn't show
up if you had a way selected...)

Steve