[Tagging] The saga of landuse=reservoir vs water=reservoir

[Mateusz Konieczny]

on topic of landuse=reservoir vs water=reservoir

I have strong preference toward version with natural=water,
but landuse=reservoir is clearly still in significant use

on topic of what is deciding for tag popularity


Dec 13, 2020, 15:31 by pla16021 at gmail.com:

> On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 14:13, Brian M. Sperlongano <> zelonewolf at gmail.com> > wrote:
>
>>
>> Is it time to more directly recommend that mappers favor natural=water + water=reservoir *instead of* rather than *in addition to* landuse=reservoir?
>>
> The reality is that no matter what it says in the wiki and no matter what
> conclusions we reach on this list, tagging practise is largely determined
> by editor presets.
>
This statement ignores that editor presets are strongly influenced by this
things.

Yes, there were some cases where iD developers
completely or mostly ignored existing documentation 
(at least one ongoing), but this cases were rare and explosive.

> (a very small fraction of users tag
> manually, but most do not).
>
This "very small fraction" is much more active than other
mappers and they have very significant influence on tagging.

Tagging discussions (here and elsewhere), wiki docs,
mappers tagging tags directly have a very big influence
especially for establishing new tags.

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