[Tagging] Basic philosophy of OSM tagging

[althio althio]

Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the basic philosophy of OSM tagging at the top level?
> ...
> Is there an FAQ on this? Or has this never been documented

I do not have a FAQ on philosophy, only this and that...

A few entries about 'how to create/propose/use' tags:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process#Significance
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like#Syntactic_conventions_for_new_tags
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Joto/How_to_invent_tags
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Duck_tagging

New tagging scheme should also be designed so that Tagging good
practices make sense.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tags
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Namespace