[Tagging] [RFC] Feature Proposal - works:type and works:process

[Daniel Evans]

Hi Martin,

The similarly short "works=" has been suggested, also as an existing tag,
with ~1000 uses that are quite similar to the intended one.

I've seen "industry=" proposed/discussed before, with the big problem that
it's very close to the existing "industrial" tag, and it would likely be
too confusing if they had different meanings (one for land use, one for
individual facilities). I'd wonder how many existing "industry=" tags are
mis-tags of "industrial=".

I would personally question the value of describing "landuse=industrial" in
detail with "industrial=" if individual facilities start being well-tagged,
but:
a) That's picking a fight with a very widely used tag!
b) Assumes that mapping of facilities starts improving. Even the
completeness of coverage with "landuse=industrial" tags isn't excellent.

Cheers,
Daniel

On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 at 22:14, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> sent from a phone
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> On 27 Apr 2024, at 10:55, Daniel Evans <daniel.fred.evans at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> works:industry= is an option which is much clearer about exactly what the
> tag means. Does that sound good to you?
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> it is fine, maybe also just “industry”? There are a few hundred of them
> but not so much with works:
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/industry#values
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> No page in the wiki so far, I think this would be suitable to accomodate
> in a works proposal, or maybe I can see the advantage of works:industry not
> having any usage so far, but it is a bit unwieldy and ultimately it is the
> same kind of industry “property” that would be useful for other
> contexts/feature tags as well, e.g. offices.
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