[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - mimics

[Eric Theise]

I've updated the proposal to incorporate Paul Allen's suggestion that the
practice of using tower:construction=concealed be deprecated when a mast or
tower is tagged with mimics=*.


On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 2:39 PM Eric Theise <erictheise at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Thanks for the quick feedback.
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 2:20 PM Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 20:54, Eric Theise <erictheise at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I propose to introduce the key mimics to remedy this.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure "mimics" is a good key, but I can't think of a better one.
>> However...
>>
>
> The first keys I came up with included "_as" – "disguised_as",
> "camouflaged_as" – which was worse. Mimesis is an agreed-upon name for one
> principle of camouflage so I believe "mimics" to be a rather good key.
>
>
>> Here is an example where what the tower mimics is included in the note
>>> field.
>>> {
>>>  "type": "node",
>>>  "id": 567065909,
>>>  "lat": 33.7925108,
>>>  "lon": -84.3533616,
>>>  "tags": {
>>>    "man_made": "tower",
>>>    "note": "pine tree",
>>>    "tower:construction": "concealed",
>>>    "tower:type": "communication"
>>>  }
>>> }
>>>
>>> In this case note would be simply be replaced with mimics="pine".
>>>
>>
>> As others have said, tower:construction is a bit of a mess.  I'd suggest
>> that if there is a
>> mimics=* (or whatever key is settled on) it is unnecessary to state that
>> it's concealed.
>>
>
> Great point, thanks. I'll re-word the proposal to that effect and post
> back here once I've done so.
>
> Eric
>
>
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