[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Historic

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 07:16 2022-10-12, Marc_marc đã viết:
> approving that "historic=* is about "with historical significance"
> doesn't change anything about already existing historic=value
> without historical significance. existing tags always remain
> unless someone has the courage to try to make progress on the issue
> and depreciated a specific tag is a completely different matter
> from approving a key.
> 
> it will simply help the creation of the next historic=value
> to be done with the right key instead of believing that it is
> positive to have a mess in the historic key

Keys that go through the feature proposal process are usually either 
freeform keys, accepting arbitrary values like human-readable text or 
numbers, or allow a fixed, coherent set of values.

In the latter case, there may be an escape hatch for "user-defined 
values", but I don't think the implication is normally that every future 
value is automatically covered by the same proposal. The approved key 
proposal can inform us about whether the value fits with the rest of the 
key's values -- just as an unapproved but well-written key description 
page can -- but the value still needs to be considered on its own merits.

As far as I can tell, the proposal is to ratify the existing contents of 
the key description page. I don't get the impression that, compared to 
the status quo, approving this proposal would meaningfully change the 
decision tree for someone coining a new value, or someone building an 
editor or renderer for that matter. It would be a different story if 
there's a controversy surrounding what tthe key description page says, 
or if the proposal changes the key's scope somehow, for example to 
better accommodate the everything-is-history approach of 
OpenHistoricalMap. [1]

[1] 
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/feature-proposal-rfc-historic/3910/10

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