[Tagging] motorcycle:scale

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Sun Feb 3 23:42:30 UTC 2019


On 04/02/19 10:07, Christoph Hormann wrote:

> On Sunday 03 February 2019, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>>> I noticed today that a wiki page for the rarely used key
>>> "motorcycle:scale" had been accidentally created as
>>> "Key:motorcycle:scale"
>> thank you for this. You are known to put things polite, in all
>> honesty, there are good reasons to believe this was not
>> “accidentally” but yet another attempt to sneak mostly unused tags
>> without further discussion, notice or proposal procedure right into
>> the established tags section of the wiki. [...]
> Just to avoid misunderstandings - it is in principle completely all
> right to invent tags and document them on tag/key pages without
> creating a proposal.

Correct. In fact documenting tags - even little used ones should be encouraged.

Further the documentation does not need to be placed in the proposal space,
particularly if the person has no intention of making a proposal.

> What is not a good idea is developing complete tagging systems this way
> without broader consultation.

The problem is with that 'consultation'. Tends to discourage, divide and frustrate.

>
> And what is in particular not advisable is creating a one dimensional
> classification systems based on combination of multiple largely
> subjective and non-verifiable criteria.  This is the exact opposite of
> good tagging design.
>
> By the way:  For keys taginfo provides information on the number of
> different users who have last edited features with this key - in this
> case 2:
>
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/motorcycle:scale
>
> This number could at least for key pages be used to show a warning that
> a certain key is not well established.
>



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