[Tagging] landcover dune or land form dune

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Mon Aug 26 10:31:37 UTC 2019


On 26/08/19 20:22, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
>
> 26 Aug 2019, 05:51 by joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com:
>
>     This also brings up the question: is it appropriate to edit pages like
>     this to mention the more common tags at the top, e.g. natural=dune,
>     natural=sand?
>
> Yes. Especially in cases of tags that
> are
>
> - duplicates of far more used tags
> - without support among any editors
> - without real support among mappers
> - without support among data consumers
> - page was created without discussion
>
> In blatant cases like landcover=water
> I would also add tag to list of
> deprecated or at least deprecated status
> and add note strongly encouraging using one of standard tags.
>
>
>     Oftenother editors are unhappy when
>
> Are they also offering some
> sort of argument against doing this?

In some cases, yes there are points in favour of the less frequently 
used key/tag.

landuse=grass anyone?
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