[Tagging] Two competing tags for desalination plants

[Janko Mihelić]

Ok, I checked all of them, and found that 12 different mappers added a
man_made=desalination_plants tag (with 11 of them still alive), and only 6
mappers added the water_works=desalination tag (33 of them). A lot of
man_made=desalination_plant tags were replaced by water_works=desalination
by one very prolific user.

With that data, it seems like man_made=desalination_plant is a much more
organic tag, which makes sense because it is documented in the wiki. I can
try and contact that one very prolific user and try to convince them to
start using the man_made tag. But first we have to at least come to an
agreement here that we want to support the wiki and prefer the
man_made=desalination_plant.

sri, 24. kol 2022. u 17:28 Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> napisao je:

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> Aug 24, 2022, 16:28 by janjko at gmail.com:
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> There is a tag man_made=desalination_plant with its own wiki page[1] and
> with 11 occurrences [2]. Then there is man_made=water_works +
> water_works=desalination of which there is no wiki page, and 33
> occurrences[3]. In the end, we have a proposal that proposes
> waterworks=desalination_plant[4] (waterworks with no underline) with 0
> occurrences. There is also a man_made=water_works wiki which doesn't say
> anything about water_works=* subtags [5].
>
> So it seems the wiki is pushing for the man_made=desalination_plant, but
> the state of the tag is there is 3 times as many water_works=desalination
> which is totally undocumented.
>
> Given that one tag is used 11 times and another 33 times: it is too early
> to
> consider usage count as significant indicator.
>
> I would rather check how many users used each tag and whether someone
> retagged
> some tag to another.
>
> You can easily check every single object tagged with either (at most 44 of
> them) and
> their history.
>
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