[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Water outlet

[stevea]

On Oct 9, 2022, at 2:10 AM, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> Oct 9, 2022, 10:53 by steveaOSM at softworkers.com:
> There is also the more “rogue” (not well-sanctioned, rather “under the radar,” maybe looked at by some or many as “disapproved” or “questionable…”) method of simply “any tag you like, and using it in the wild” (without the whole Proposal process).

> Using https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like to produce new tags
> is well sanctioned and normal and how we got most of our tags.

OK, you say my choice of “not well-sanctioned” is erroneous; I appreciate your feedback.

> Using at least part of proposal process (RFC) may help but it does not make other tags
> or tagging schemes invalid.

Yet, I can’t help but notice there is a distinct trend towards many proposals being offered.  The great majority of these present as thoughtful and well-developed, resulting in (wiki) documentation ready-made and richly-detailed, as well as at least a kernel of community familiar with its details.  With a “coined” tag, I won’t make the mistake of saying these aren’t true, but it is true that they are less well-developed (and maybe don’t need to be), are often less well-documented and may not have the wider community familiarity and acceptance of a tag which became Approved through the proposal process.

Again, thank you for pointing out that both are perfectly valid.  However, while they both might have the same “validity,” I (for one, and I believe many in OSM) feel the many differences between these two “origin stories” of newer tags.