[Tagging] Water source types
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Fri Jan 12 23:44:10 UTC 2018
On 13-Jan-18 08:58 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> sent from a phone
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>> On 12. Jan 2018, at 22:30, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> And that
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain is
>> used only 36 times worldwide?
The frequency of use is,in part, determined by how long it has existed on the wiki,
how well 'advertised' by links on other wiki pages, and how well known the tag is.
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>> Removing amenity=drinking_water and replacing it with
>> man_made=water_tap or man_made=drinking_fountain is not an edit that
>> should be made.
As a person who added some of these amenity=drinking_water in the past I feel that changing the ones I have added a better tag of,
say, man_made=drinking_fountain is justified ... that is what is specifically there.
Further .. if I find a drinking fountain at a place that has been tagged with amenity=drinking_water,
possibly a long time before the existence of man_made=drinking_fountain .. should it not be changed to a more specific tag???
I don't see adding details to past tagging as detrimental.
Should I stop changing residential areas to construction where that takes place?
Or from construction to residential/commercial? No.
Changing the tag to something else where it has changed or adds detail should not be discouraged, in fact it should be encouraged!
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> +1, please keep in mind that the wiki is documenting what people are doing, not what they should do (the latter is done in proposals ;-) )
The wiki documents what people use, not necessarily things that have been proposed ... eg office, shops etc.
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