[Tagging] Tagging Digest, Vol 137, Issue 129

[Michael Patrick]

>
> I would push back in the strongest possible terms against increasing the
> use of "invented" values of protect_class (anything outside of 1a, 1b,
> 2-6).  The 1a,1b,2-6 values are based on IUCN (International Union for the
> Conservation of Nature) protected area categories, which categorize the
> management practices of land used for nature conservation. ... However, the
> other values (1, 7-99) were pure inventions by early wiki authors and have
> absolutely no basis in any classification system, are poorly defined, and
> use numbers rather than plain-English words.  ....    replacing them with
> plain-English tagging for hazards, special economic zones, and military
> bases respectively.  In those votes, there was very strong support for
> abandoning this invented numbering system.
>

The 'invented' tags were an inevitable consequence of selecting a
classification system IUCN, which by its own description was very narrow in
scope.
If 'inventing' a classification system isn't desirable, and adopting an
external classification system like IUCN was acceptable, why not repurpose
one that was actually designed from the ground up by an international
community of stakeholders, including lawyers, scientists, planners,
economists that's now been tested over a couple of decades, which addresses
every semantic case of Land cover and Land Use that's been mentioned.
Or at a minimum, compare a proposed system to existing ones, on the off
chance all those people may have thought through some difficulties and
resolved them. One is the EU INSPIRE ( example
https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/theme/am and
https://eurogeographics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2.-INSPIRE-Specification_Lena_0.pdf
), there are others. If you skim through these other models, it is fairly
easy to understand why they divided the concepts the way they did, and how
they build in extensions and room for more detail.
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