[Tagging] Fixed position GPS receivers

[John Smith]

On 19 May 2010 13:30, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, but it doesn't get less if you put man_made=gps_receiver and
> note=a_well_surveyed_known_position_with_high_accuracy_to_monitor_gps_signals

Seems silly to waste space on stuff you can document in the wiki

how about using man_made=gps_monitoring_station instead then?

> I suggest that tagging somehow is understandable ideally without even
> needing the wiki to look up what it intends.

While that is a nice idea, it doesn't pan out that way in reality for
various reasons, eg I'm a native english speaker and had no idea what
highway=ford meant, to me it's a causeway but to OSM a causeway is
something completely different, you are going to get regional
differences that will necessitate wiki lookups or localised
translations even from english in a different regional version of
english.