[Tagging] Strange tags

[Dave Swarthout]

Well, I'll be damned. These hikers, or "hillbaggers", are using these tags
for their own purposes. Many of them could easily be derived from the ele
tag. I have no stake in whether they do that or not except to say that it
encourages others to make up tags for their own regional uses. In New York
State there is a list of 46 peaks that top 4,000 feet and anyone who
summits them joins the group called "The 46ers." But nobody maps them with
46er=yes/no because this information is immediately obvious from the ele
tag.

In Thailand, there are local expat mappers who "name" a track or path in
rural regions "Single-track" or "Double track" thus indicating in their own
way whether it's suitable for motorcycle use. I try to discourage such
mapping, preferring to address it some other more uniform and acceptable
manner. This usage amounts to the same thing in IMO. I mean, the list in
the Wikipedia article is a long one. Do we really want all this extra, what
I would term, clutter? I'm not suggesting removing those tags but was just
curious about them.

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 2:39 AM Valor Naram <valinora at gmx.net> wrote:

> But as datauser I won't use that data. We need to find a way to make the
> tags more useful in global scope. That can be done by translating to widely
> supported tags etc.
>
> ~ Sören Reinecke alias Valor Naram
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Strange tags
> From: ael
> To: tagging at openstreetmap.org
> CC:
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 07:24:16PM +0200, Jan Michel wrote:
> > On 29.09.19 17:07, Paul Allen wrote:
> > >
> > > Really?????
> > >
> > > There are people who are VERY interested in these things.  People who
> > > want to know where
> > > Munros, Donalds, Grahams, Marilyns, TuMPs, etc. are.
> >
> > Well... There is no documentation of these tags in the OSM wiki.
>
> While that is certainly desirable, it is not necessary, especially where
> the terms are well known - at least in the relevant region.
>
> >
> > These seem to be very local terms that are not used outside of Scotland
> > (British Isles?). In general we oppose such local terms as keys because
> they
> > won't be of any use outside a small area.
>
> Who are "we" who oppose such terms?
>
> OSM is trying to be the best map possible, and the map should be useful
> in small areas (like the UK) as well as more globally.
>
> Even if one local mapper with special local knowledge tags something
> only understood in a very small area, it is still improving the map.
>
> ael
>
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Dave Swarthout
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Chiang Mai, Thailand
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