[OSM-talk] Proposal for Tag Prefixes

[Tom Carden]

On 27/10/06, Etienne <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to make a proposal to formalise (as far as anything is ever formal
> on OSM) a practice that I have been following for some time.
>
> "Tags may be prefixed with a value that corresponds to a wiki user Id
> followed by a colon.  The owner of that wiki user Id has the right to
> control the use of all such tags."
>

Sounds generally solid and a good use of tags.  Might I suggest using
your OSM username rather than your wiki name though?  It seems
sensible given that soon OSM will allow you to make your edits public
using that name, and not your wiki name.

Best,

Tom.