[Tagging] Sector, section, and cemetery

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

> Am 19.05.2015 um 00:25 schrieb Kotya Karapetyan <kotya.lists at gmail.com>:
> 
> 1) people really prefer to use "name" instead of or together with "ref"—and I can well understand them, since "ref" is not displayed.


what is displayed really shouldn't matter how to tag (I know, you know and we all know it). ref could reasonably be displayed the same as name, if it were desired. name on a sector element isn't displayed like ref isn't.


> 2) cemetery=sector is used in some places but not everywhere. While landuse=cemetery is used >200k times, cemetery=sector is only used 2.5k times.


I don't like the cemetery=sector tag because it goes against the logics of similar tagging schemes a=b b=c where c is a more detailed description (eg subtype) of a. A sector isn't a kind of cemetery, it is a part of it. We do not tag city=neighbourhood because a neighbourhood isn't a subtype of a city, it's a part of it. Similarly I also question the other values of the cemetery key with higher usage numbers, eg grave: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/cemetery#values 


Cheers 
Martin