[Tagging] [OSM-talk] Document personal tags in Proposed_features/ space, User: space, or Tag:/Key: space?

Joseph Eisenberg joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com
Fri Aug 16 12:28:25 UTC 2019


> " it would probably be a lot of work to do this practically"

That's never stopped me before! :-)

> Take all tagging documentation from the wiki no matter where it is and remove everything that is not strictly documenting the de facto meaning of tags in the OSM database the result
would be a pretty compact body of documentation.

Are you suggesting making Tag: or Key: pages for all of the proposed
tags/keys which are being used? That sounds like a lot of work.

Wouldn't it be easier to mark crazy/theoretical/bad/abandoned
proposals as "abandoned" and archive them, and then make it easier to
search the wiki, including all the proposed features, rather than
moving them all to a different wiki namespace?

Or perhaps you are suggesting going through the current Tag: and Key:
pages and removing all of the non-factual information, including some
pages which are opinion or recommendations.

While this would make a few of the pages shorter, it wouldn't
significantly reduce the number of pages or the number of tags and
keys documented in the wiki. Just the Map Features page alone, which
is only a small subset of the documented tags and keys, is quite
lengthy at the moment, and it's just descriptions of each approved or
de facto tag (plus a few others that are in use)

On 8/16/19, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:
>
> The problem about proposal pages is that they can be infinitely
> theoretical, non-verifiable or outright insane.  So telling a mapper
> who is thinking about inventing a new tag to search the proposals if
> there is one that already covers what they want to do is not
> practicable.  Because even if there is a proposal that deals with the
> same kind of situation the mapper is confronted with that does not mean
> the proposal contains a practicable idea of how to tag this.
>
> The advisable approach to making tag documentation on the wiki better
> usable is IMO not to further blur the line between documentation of the
> de facto meaning of tags by humans and all the other uses of the wiki
> (like proposals, automatically assembled data etc.) but more strictly
> separating them.  If you (theoretically - it would probably be a lot of
> work to do this practically) take all tagging documentation from the
> wiki no matter where it is and remove everything that is not strictly
> documenting the de facto meaning of tags in the OSM database the result
> would be a pretty compact body of documentation.
>
> --
> Christoph Hormann
> http://www.imagico.de/
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