[Tagging] motorcycle:scale

Graeme Fitzpatrick graemefitz1 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 21:57:13 UTC 2019


On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 23:59, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> There's a hierarchy of tag acceptability based upon how much forethought
> has gone into it.
> Proposed and approved.  Proposed and rejected.  Proposed and lapsed.
> Widely used.
> Used once or twice.  Used once by somebody who didn't know there was
> already an approved tag.
> Ideally we document as many of those as possible and indicate how
> acceptable they are with the
> status.
>
> My point was that "proposed" is not the same as "informal."  Proposing a
> tag is part of a formal
> discussion process that may lead to acceptance or rejection.  Informal is
> me wanting to tag
> some type of object, being unable to find a suitable tag (or being too
> lazy to look), and just making it
> up ad hoc.  As we had with landuse=clearing a while ago.  Which should
> probably be documented
> as deprecated along with the correct way to do it (multipolygon with an
> inner area, maybe without
> any other tag if you're unsure what is there other than not-outer).
> Informal or ad hoc would be
> somebody made up a tag for which there isn't already a better alternative
> and it isn't yet in
> widespread use.
>

So using a real example here, lets go back to my shop=caravan from a few
weeks back.

I asked what we should tag a caravan dealer as & somebody replied just use
shop=caravan as it's already in use, as it was, 140 odd times, but not
documented.

I then created a page for it, which, after discussions & taking in other
points of view,  was modified several times, along with several other pages
for possible alternatives, suggesting people use the =caravan tag.

As the shop=caravan tag was already in use, I didn't put up a formal RFC or
ask for a vote - should I have? (& no-one complained at the time that I
hadn't)

So would you call that tag approved, widely used, informal or what?

Thanks

Graeme
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