[Tagging] reviving hollow way

[Andy Townsend]

On 20/02/2018 07:40, joost schouppe wrote:
> Some of the most used historical tags are for things that are just 
> old, not necessarily disused or with another use than the original 
> one. Wayside cross and shrine, monuments, memorials, castles etc. It 
> just seems to signify a special relationship with history, not much 
> more than that.
...

As an aside, I did go through the usage of "historic" in the UK and 
Ireland, and it's a bit of a hodge-podge between "things that were once 
something but there's nothing there now" (effectively used as a a 
lifecycle tag), "things that are still something" (e.g. memorial), and 
"things that are still something, but are important because of what they 
were" (castle etc.).  I ended up with a list of things to treat as 
buildings, things to treat as "almost buildings", things that probably 
aren't buildings and some specific other checks (e.g. "chimney"):

https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/SomeoneElse-style/blob/master/style.lua#L1509

Essentially, it's a complete mess.  I was glad that I was able to do 
something useful with e.g. 
https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=17&lat=52.657347&lon=-7.12672 
- you can find a few grains of wheat in among the chaff but most of 
what's in there is (like "hollow_way") a bit too idosyncratic to be even 
thinking about creating a regular wiki page for.

>
>
> I still haven't heard of a procedure to vote on tag A over tag B, so 
> I've invented my own. You can vote here:
>
> https://framadate.org/ApOlIj5ePZvrTjz8

Misses a "none of the above" option.

Best Regards,
Andy