[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - defensive structures

[Mateusz Konieczny]

7 Jul 2021, 14:38 by bert.araali.afritastic at gmail.com:

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>  If there is really a need to describe or use specific        terms one can use description=* or even in some cases one of the        name keys.
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No, as it blocks any automatic processing.

There is a good reason why we havehighway=motorway not a freeformdescription tag.
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>  - a caponier is a building and a trench > historic=building, highway=footway, cutting=yes,        trench=* again with > description and use the Wikidata and Wikipedia          keys for more context;
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If someone is interested in that then 
allowing to identify them in OSM is 100% fine(I assume that it is verifiable to map them)
Expecting to parse external resources 
(often on incompatible licences) is nota comparable solution.
>  - a cavalier is just a building with more levels, enough tags          (hsitoric, building, ruins, building:levels etc...) to tag          those > again with > description and use the          Wikidata and Wikipedia keys for more context;
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Freeform text and external resources isnot comparable solution.
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> Our wiki says explicitly about historical        key:
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> where the contributor prefers to define the        type of structure in additional tags, then it is possible to use        a generic value for the tag historic=*.
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Proposal process is one of tools to create new
tagging schemes, not yet described at Wiki.
> we        also have heritage=*
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That gives no info about type of an object(except indirect pointer to a sometimes usefuldatabase)
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