[Tagging] motorcycle:scale

[Sergio Manzi]

I don't really know where I was at that times, mostly because I don't know when that times where, honestly. Should I feel ashamed?

I wasn't criticizing the rationale for having a better wording for the status of that kind of "/debatable/" tags, but only the wording you proposed.

Cheers,

Sergio


On 2019-02-07 14:48, Paul Allen wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 13:23, Sergio Manzi <smz at smz.it <mailto:smz at smz.it>> wrote:
>
>     "/ad hoc/" (for this)  signifies a solution designed for a specific problem or task, non-generalizable, and not intended to be able to be adapted to other purposes.
>
>     "/extempore/" (or more correctly "/ex tempore/", "from the time") means something done without preparation or forethought, as if prompted by the spirit of the moment.
>
>     "/impromptu/", improvisation, has more or less the same meaning as "/ex tempore/".
>
>     I don't see how how the above could be seen as substitutes for "in use" or any other OSM tags status...
>
> Were you here when we discussed landuse=clearing that somebody found used (presumably
> by a HOT mapper)?  Used only a handful of times.  It had not been proposed and accepted, or
> proposed and rejected.  It was not widely used.  It was something that somebody had made up
> on the spot from lack of knowledge about the correct way to deal with it.  The wiki should
> probably document and deprecate it, for the benefit of anyone who finds it on taginfo and
> would otherwise assume it to be acceptable.
>
> But there are other de novo tags which don't have existing alternatives, haven't been through a
> proposal process and are not widely used.  "In use" implies fairly wide usage.  Otherwise
> anyone can invent a tag (however silly) use it once and document it in the wiki as "in use."  I
> doubt that is a good way to go.  Nor is leaving such things undocumented else we're likely
> to end up with dozens of alternative tags for the same thing.
>
> -- 
> Paul
>
>
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