[Tagging] advertising

[Paul Desgranges]

Hello all,

This mail to launch some discussions on advertising 
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:advertising> tag. <page>

I have personnaly been slowly working on this tag during the last two 
years, with the idea that at the end, if we could have advertising 
devices properly specified in OSM, and one day all advertising devices 
stored in OSM, it could bring the necessary tools and information to 
citizens to have some control on advertisings in the public space...

So I spent time on discussing with and presenting to different kinds of 
people, specifying, prototyping and experimenting ways of mapping 
advertising devices <http://pdfext.github.io/OSM/advertising/> on OSM, 
and then, after these design steps, I performed during the last 6 months 
many little addings and changes on advertising wiki pages. These addings 
were done without discussing them with "tagging" list  (except one), and 
I received recently (only recently) an indignant mail from someone 
exposing that all these new points should never have been commited to 
OSM wiki without being discussed and approved first by OSM community. He 
is right. I recognize my clumsiness, hope it is not too late to have 
these discussions, not to late to find a consensus and decide of what 
can be kept and what can be improved. So I wish we can start from now on 
'tagging' list several little threads on advertising tags... Depending 
on results of threads discussions, what is not commonly shared and 
accepted will be removed or changed, so that the way of mapping 
advertising devices is improved at the end. If this overall work can be 
done slowly by surely during 2017, that could be fine.

So I will try to animate one first thread and see how it goes... There 
are many things to discuss...

This first thread can be for example related to the way the advertising 
devices are supported <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:support>.

I ll start this first thread next week to take into account your 
potential returns on this preliminary introduction mail first, if any.

Thank you

Paul


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