[Tagging] feature Proposal - Voting - settlement_type=crannog

[Andy Townsend]

On 07/10/2022 11:27, Marc_marc wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Le 07.10.22 à 12:11, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit :
>> who cares for "in use" or "approved"
>
> me :)
>
> approved that means that the subject has been discussed,
> that people have spent time on it, that there has been
> an opportunity to detect problems, to propose improvements
> it's quite different from an "in use", because a guy invented
>
Unfortunately discussion and "voting" by people who have only the 
vaguest idea of what the thing being voted on is adds no value*. There 
is a place on the "B Ark" for them...

The fact that there was only one comment during the fortnight of 
discussion means that people really don't know (or don't care) what 
these are, and people who do know and care (such as the proposer) should 
probably "just map these".  Whether that's via 
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/defensive_settlement=crannog 
(which is slightly ahead in taginfo) or 
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/settlement_type=crannog matters 
little; there are few of them in OSM right now, and the word "crannog" 
is characteristic enough, that they can fairly easily be remapped into 
some "better" archaeological scheme at some later stage.

What matters is getting them mapped, and getting from the 10s currently 
in OSM to the 1500 or so that apparently do or did exist**.

Best Regards,

Andy

* We still don't know what bicycle=designated means 
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/use-of-bicycle-designated-vs-bicycle-yes-outside-of-germany/3230 


** According to wikipedia.  I was surprised that there were apparently 
as many as 1200 in Ireland.