[Tagging] feature Proposal - Voting - settlement_type=crannog

[Anne-Karoline Distel]

Not in reply to this specific email, but I've done a bit of tidying
amonst keys and values the last three days, and I've documented some of
my findings which might give food for thought:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/b-unicycling/diary/400164

(I hope you like footnotes...:-) )

Anne

On 07/10/2022 11:11, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> who cares for "in use" or "approved", the question is only whether
> there are alternative tags available, in which case you either have to
> decide or put both.
> The voting isn't binding, at most it could be relevant if there is an
> alternative value for the same key.
>
> So while this could be seen as a conceptual problem, it does not
> really matter IMHO for actual tagging.
> In practice I would not "approve" the whole chain up, just because one
> particular value was approved, and if I were the proponent of this
> tag, I would use it also if it got rejected, unless it was rejected by
> other people familiar with the domain or area where these occur, and
> they would propose a better alternative.
>
> Also because you cannot rely on the information given in the wiki. I
> just changed the "site_type" key to de facto, because this is what it
> is. Furthermore also site_type=settlement could be seen as de-facto,
> but I did not make this edit immediately because I see there is maybe
> some more wiggle room to see it still as "only" in significant use
> (3600 times) without alternatives proposed as far as I can see.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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