[Tagging] Two competing tags for desalination plants

[Janko Mihelić]

čet, 25. kol 2022. u 00:33 François Lacombe <fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com>
napisao je:


> 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?
>

The duck tagging doctrine[1] makes me like "man_made=desalination_plant"
more. When you see a desalination plant, "man_made=water_works" doesn't
come to mind.

But the wiki says man_made=water_works is a place where drinking water is
extracted and put into the pipeline. So by that logic, desalination plants
fall in there.

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

A new standard, or a standard to end all standards?[2]

Ok, then it seems I'll have to find a place to describe the
water_works=desalination, link them across the wiki, and acknowledge that
we have two standards.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Duck_tagging
[2] https://xkcd.com/927/
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