[Tagging] Removal of "amenity" from OSM tagging

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

> Am 15.05.2015 um 14:52 schrieb Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl>:
> 
> Speaking of language/cultural differences: even I don't know how to tag "higher schools" in Poland - as universities or colleges maybe - because "further/continuing education" idea is simply not used here, but we have no common "university, college etc" tag.



either one of the available tags fit for your purpose or you will have to invent a new tag, that's how OSM works. The situation would be different for you if we had a common tag for any kind of higher education, but it seems that other mappers have thought this approach would be less useful for them (or we would already have this tag). 

IMHO in general we have to deal with what is there, yes, we can try to make some changes to make the system more consistent or complete, but if you come and want to change everything there will naturally be some reluctance. This is ever more true with established usage of a tag. If you still want to try, please use a namespace/ keys that are not yet in use, so to avoid conflicts with other mappers and to allow for parallel tagging during "transition" (also look at the tags path and public_transport which are examples for previous attempts to redesign parts of the tagging scheme)

cheers 
Martin