[Tagging] feature Proposal - Voting - settlement_type=crannog

[Nathan Case]

Hi Anne,

I don't have any objections about the tag specifically. But proposals 
like this do raise an interesting question.

Your proposal is for a specific value. However, the key itself 
"settlement_type" (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:site_type) is 
only "in use". Further, the parent tag to this is "site_type=settlement" 
and both key and value are only "in use". The parent tag to that 
"historic=archaeological_site" is de facto.

If this particular (and likely quite low usage, by your own admission) 
tag is approved, what does that do to the complete tag hierarchy? Does 
everything in the hierarchy become approved too?

Is that appropriate - to set an approved status of a much more widely 
used hierarchy based on one (assumed to be) low-usage tag proposal? Do 
voters read up on the whole hierarchy when voting on a specific tag (if 
that hierarchy hasn't previously been approved)? Should they?

If it's not appropriate then we end up in the situation where parent 
keys aren't approved but child keys/values are - which seems a little 
odd. I note this situation has arisen previously (e.g. 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/holy_well but 
place_of_worship=* as a key is still just "in use") but I'm not sure 
we've ever decided the ramifications of them.

Best,

Nathan






On 07/10/2022 08:11, Anne-Karoline Distel wrote:
> Voting has started on the crannog proposal:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/crannog
>
> There was only one comment during the fortnight of discussion, so it
> should be fairly forward. I know there are a lot of discussions about
> more important tags going on at the moment, but maybe you can find a 
> minute.
>
> Anne
>
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