[Tagging] Proposal - Draft: key=osm for aerial imagery and internel objects

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Werner Hoch <werner.ho at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've created a proposal for imagery objects and other objects that are
> only used internaly in osm.
>  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/osm

> Aerial Imagery:
> ---------------------------
> With the new Bing images many new relations have been created that
> contain boundaries of hires images. I think it would be cool to have a
> uniq tagging for such objects.
> Examples without unified tagging:
>  http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1291579
>  http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/396170

These are features of Bing, not of the earth. They belong with the
Bing dataset, or else another dataset which collects metadata about
imagery, but I don't think it belongs in OSM.


> Worksets, Experimental Tagging, ...
> ---------------------------------------------
> Sometimes mappers are creating objects with experimental tagging or
> collections of objects for personal use.

They can do that on a dev server.

> Mappers that do QA work sometimes delete or change that objects.

They shouldn't be doing QA work on the production dataset.

> These messages can only be read by human mappers, not by bots. To make
> it easier for the QA mapper, the bots and the mappers that are working
> on new things it would be nice to have a uniq tagging for such objects.
> The proposed tags are:
>  osm=experimental; osm=test; osm=temporary; osm=workset
>
> Comments and additional ideas are welcome.

We have a mechanism for people to experiment with; that's the dev server.

If you're saying that's not sufficient, I'd like to hear why and what
we can/should be providing to aid mappers's experimentation without
effecting our production dataset.

- Serge