[Tagging] Two competing tags for desalination plants

[François Lacombe]

Hi all

I agree on too less features to decide only on tagging establishment.

It would be useful to use water_works to not overload man_made with
features we could best describe with a more meaningful key.
water_works sounds relevant to distinguish with many other businesses
described in man_made, aren't you?

By the way, it would be interesting to have a proposal on that.

Not to mention landuse=industrial and utility=water we're currently
discussing in the utility facility proposal RFC.

Cheers

François

Le mer. 24 août 2022 à 23:13, Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Aug 24, 2022, 16:28 by janjko at gmail.com:
>>
>> 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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