[Tagging] Tagging oil refineries

[Janko Mihelić]

I wanted to tag all oil refineries in Croatia, and I found two refineries
with the tag industrial=refinery. The wiki suggested that is wrong tagging,
so I changed it to
industrial=oil
man_made=works
product=petroleum

Then I wanted to see the state of tags outside of Croatia, and found that
industrial=refinery is the de facto standard tag for oil refineries. There
are 436 industrial=refinery occurrences, nicely spread all over the world.
There are 803 product=petroleum tags, around 15 of those used for
refineries, and the rest imported in L.A., I'm not even sure for what.
Little buildings like these:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/428540641

Looks like some historic petroleum producing place or something. I'm
betting those are wrongly mapped.

Anyway, do we promote industrial=refinery into an accepted tag and put it
into this list:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:industrial

or do we fight against it, like it says in the wiki:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dworks

Janko
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