[OSM-talk] Prolification of the amenity tag

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:01, 80n wrote:
> This looks like a candidate for using a tag prefix to demarcate it from the
> main map features collection.
>
> Anyone can use a wiki username as a prefix without risk of conflict with
> some other tag that has the same name but a different purpose.  The owner
> of that wiki username can then dictate policy about how those tags can be
> used.
>
> So, if you wanted to create a set of wardriving tags for example, register
> a wiki username, such as wd, or war, or wardrive, 

This is a good point. To start it I just registered a wiki-name: wifi ;-)
So we can start adding tags like wifi:xxx

So I'm up for proposals on the new Wifi Page.

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Joerg