[Tagging] Quonset hut

Rene ArAge at gmx.co.uk
Thu Apr 20 18:34:22 UTC 2017


Thanks for explaining Martin! I will take a closer look at this 
information next week. Thanks again!

Regards,
Rene
> 2017-04-15 13:40 GMT+02:00 Rene <ArAge at gmx.co.uk 
> <mailto:ArAge at gmx.co.uk>>:
>
>     1. Am I allowed to add such a key?
>
>
>
> you can add a proposal for any kind of feature and definition. You can 
> add other content including in use tags to document current usage. A 
> handful of objects tagged with a certain tag probably will be better 
> documented as a proposal anyway, but if you are fairly sure that there 
> won't be opposition, you might also add rarer (but used) values to the 
> wiki, e.g. by extending a list.
>
>     2. How does it work? I've never done this before so help is very
>     much appreciated.
>
>
>
> there's a page about the proposal process here, otherwise you might 
> consider to add stuff to "talk(discussion)" pages or if you feel that 
> this is the community consensus, to the "page-pages"
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process
>
>     3. Maybe the most important question, which value is it gonna be?
>     Quonset_hut, romney_hut or nissen_hut?
>
>
>
> these are fairly similar, still they are different (that's not always 
> the case with different names, but here it seems to be). There are 
> even more variants, e.g. Iris huts. If you look al althios proposal 
> prefabricated, that's not completely bad, just a little too short. 
> building=prefabricated_hut and then a subtag if you want to be more 
> explicit, would work fine. Something like barrel_hut seems to imply a 
> different kind of object.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
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