[Tagging] historic=tank and surprises with tags like car-sharing

[André Pirard]

On 2017-04-16 00:20, Michal Fabík wrote:
> Hi,
> I just mapped my third tank in about a month and I'm still wondering why it isn't documented in the Wiki alongside historic=aircraft, historic=locomotive etc. There's quite a few of them mapped already, according to Taginfo. One could argue that tanks are more often than not parts of war memorials (like here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Starovi%C4%8Dky-pam%C3%A1tn%C3%ADktankov%C3%A9bitvy-1.JPG/1067px-Starovi%C4%8Dky-pam%C3%A1tn%C3%ADktankov%C3%A9bitvy-1.JPG) so they don't have to be mapped as stand-alone objects, but this is not always the case (today, I mapped a tank that's an open air museum exhibit, the other day I saw one serving as a mascot of a military school). Is it perhaps because the word "tank" can also mean a container for liquids? Maybe we should use something like historic=armoured_vehicle?
> Regards,
For the nearby tanks, one is a historic=monument
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1645427815> and the other a
tourism=attraction, attraction=tank
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4219526321>.
To me, tourism attraction sounds disrespectful for the men who died and
I prefer memorial=tank.
Usual OSM inconsistencies.
Other searches seem to show that "tank" is known around the world, so,
adding historic=tank or better memorial=tank is a +1 to me.
Else, it would be *=war_tank, but nobody would search for that.
And what's the problem with tank anyway, is there anything like a
historic liquid container anyway?

That problem is a mild one.
I asked how to tag posts where people wait for cars to pick them, both
subscribed to a system called fr:covoiturage=en:car-sharing.  Nobody
would answer.
So, I tagged them as car-sharing with a sub-tag indicating hike-sharing.
They were nicely showing on OSM.org and I showed samples to the organizers.
But in the meantime they had that rendering removed and I sounded like a
fool.
That's the way OSM goes. Your perfect tagging is turned to mistakes too
without warning.
And that's what's unhappily turning me away from OSM much.

Cheers

André.



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