[Tagging] Roundtrip and closed loop in relations

[Francesco Ansanelli]

Il gio 19 dic 2019, 21:28 Phake Nick <c933103 at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> The current usage is that, "Use roundtrip=yes to indicate that the start
> and finish of the route are at the same location". As in a route from Paris
> to Milano to Frankfurt then back to Paris would be tagged as roundtrip=yes.
> You have edited the wiki against established usage to make it become a no.
> A word used as a key isn't perfect doesn't mean you can suddenly edit the
> wiki to change its definition without regard of all the established usage
> in the osm database.
>

The question is, current tagging respect original author intention? Unlucky
Roundtrip change meaning between American and British English afaict.
I've discussed also with another mapper and we agreed to fix wiki in order
to avoid further misunderstandings.



> 在 2019年12月20日週五 01:21，Francesco Ansanelli <francians at gmail.com> 寫道：
>
>> Dear Volker,
>>
>> I haven't change the meaning of Roundtrip, but just reworded to clarify
>> it.
>> Roundtrip yes is not a closed loop...
>> Please check this discussion:
>>
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:roundtrip#loop
>>
>> Cheers
>> Francesco
>>
>>
>> Il gio 19 dic 2019, 15:40 Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>
>>> Please relable your "roundtrip" proposal  as such.
>>>
>>> Please do not change the meaning of an established tag. roundtrip=yes|no
>>> is used about 34k times, based on a different definition, see
>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cycle_routes#Relations
>>>
>>> Volker
>>>
>>> On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 at 15:18, Francesco Ansanelli <francians at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear List,
>>>>
>>>> I have updated the roundtrip page and created the closed loop proposal
>>>> in order to address the misuse of the first tag:
>>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:roundtrip
>>>>
>>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:closed_loop=yes
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know what you think
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Francesco
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