[Tagging] Wiki edits, building tags on nodes versus areas

[Andrew Guertin]

On 06/04/2014 12:43 PM, Andrew Hain wrote:
> Over the past few days there have been a number of wiki edits (mainly but
> not entirely in German) stating that shop=* and similar tags, contrary to
> the “One feature, one OSM element” principle [1], should only ever be put
> on nodes and not on building polygons. I’ve commented on an affected talk
> page without any response.
>
> Is there any justification for these edits?
>
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element

Regardless of anyone's opinions on what the best way to map these 
features is, both ways of mapping are extremely widespread. It's not 
appropriate to mark a widespread mapping practice as incorrect without 
community-wide discussion, and as far as I know no such discussion has 
happened.

Therefore, in my opinion, the wiki changes should be reverted.

--Andrew

P.S.: If someone *does* want to start a discussion on that topic, it's 
one I'm interested in.